Re: On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist
On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
But no one really knows what their aims are, right? The danger here
for the left it seems to me–besides the always-present dangers of
practicing statecraft–is precisely in repeating the runup to the
Iranian revolution, where the theocrats are seen as “one of us”* or
a neutral actor in the revolutionary consortium but things turn out
much differently when the revolution obtains power.
Except that unlike Iran in the late 70s, Lebanon is not in a pre- revolutionary situation.