Doug Henwood Talks

On Nov 20, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:

Yoshie wrote:

Colonialists and imperialists have employed native forces to keep
natives under control throughout history

duh

Nice alternation of the obvious and the provocative she’s got going,
don’t you think?

Whether resisters expand their targets from native soldiers…..to
native civilians….. who work for them and how much depend on the
political programs of the resisters

Which is why I asked what exactly it means to say “the French
resistance killed far more French citizens than it killed Germans.”

Come to think of it “What are the political programs of the
resisters?” was what Doug was asking in the post that started this
thread.

I might not like their political program, but it’s perfectly
legitimate for a resistance to attack collaborators. I don’t think a
lot of the forces that many are calling the Iraqi resistance are
doing that. Blowing up helpless civilians doesn’t qualify.

I know Carrol hates it when I ask questions - for him, all the issues
were settled at least 40 years ago, and questions are either
inconvenient or impertinent. But I was both horrified and mystified
by blowing up 22 jobseekers and wondered what the fucking point of it
was. Michael Pollak had a good answer; from the Cox-Furuhashi axis
we’ve gotten nothing but ‘tude.

Doug

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