I hope that people respond to this the way the Spanish people responded to the Madrid bombings, which was generally the right way to go. They blamed the government for getting involved with the US war and thereby bascially provoking reactionary fundamentalists to attack them.

That's what this is about. These are the consequences of empire.

Now before anyone gets stupid, I'll make the obligatory statement that progressive, radical, and revolutionary-minded people and people against the war should not side with reactionary fundamentalists. I think that their choice of targets--a civilian population--shows how bankrupt their ideology is. Funny, though, how you could say the same about the US ruling class, and on a much larger scale.

It's almost as if part of the US war is designed to stir up fundamentalists. The invasion and occupation naturally call forth opposition, but the repeated offenses to Islam--destroying the Quran at Guantanamo, the statements that Christian Fascist military people like Gen. Boykin make, and so on--stir up more indignation in the Muslim world than the people in the US even know about. This is fuel for fundamentalists, and it seems deliberate.

In other words, the US is creating its own enemy.

Like I said in another thread, I don't think there's anything inadvertent about it. They need justification for their wars for plunder. You can't just say, "We're gonna go get that oil no matter what"...you've got to have a pretext.

I think now more than ever we need to drive the Bush regime out. There's only one direction this shit can go, and that's more war and more police state measures, and more scapegoating. Imperialism is the enemy of ALL the worlds' people. That's where our fight is.