One of the Guardian's professional bigots, Tariq Ali, announces the bombings in London are all the faults of the British and the Americans. Mostly big deal. The Guardian is a fascist rag and Tariq Ali is the kind of creep who is buddy of Galloway. But the cynic in me liked this bit:

The bombers who targeted London yesterday are anonymous. It is assumed that those who carried out these attacks are linked to al-Qaida. We simply do not know. Al-Qaida is not the only terrorist group in existence. It has rivals within the Muslim diaspora. But it is safe to assume that the cause of these bombs is the unstinting support given by New Labour and its prime minister to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Are you surprised that a Saddam and Taliban defender does not want to actually live in their societies, preferring imperialist Britain?

UPDATE: I somehow missed that Tariq Ali also lies for Cuba, another state he somehow admires but won't actually live in.

Awww come on!!! It's a fair comment - the only European states targeted by Al Queeda have given the USA a great deal of support. I also find it boggling that someone without the cop-on to perform even a basic analysis of terrorist motives can get/keep a job teaching in a University. In case you're wondering by the way analysis does not mean support or sympathy for terrorist objectives but you might not see it that way. Its easier to smear people who disagree with you than it is to have a rational discussion with them. And as for claiming that the Guardian is fascist....

"Guardian's professional bigots" - ohhh do grow up. I hold no candle for Tariq Ali - but the Granuid exposes a range of ideas and opinion. Frig - would you really like the world to be dominated by the Mail or --- The Express?

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"I also find it boggling that someone without the cop-on to perform even a basic analysis of terrorist motives can get/keep a job teaching in a University."

Regardless of the accuracy of the opinion, he's an economist, yeah? You know what economists study?

Remember the French tanker Limbourg blown up off Yemen 3 years ago? The dozen French naval staff killed in Pakistan? MSF targeted by suicide bombers in Iraq? A dozen German tourists killed in North Africa?

Hey, I read a lot of kids stuff. "eek eek" mouse squeeked, "what could it be?"

The ideal of a university education is to teach a person how to critically examine information, regardless of whether it was something that person studied in college or not. Any person with such facilties should be able to reject an opinion the disagree with for reasonable reasons, a la Instapundit who I frequently disagree with but usually respect and admire. Impling that the journalist really doesn't hold the terrorist responsible at all and writes for a FASCIST (!) organ is just facile, as is rejecting any attempt to understand their motives. This form of smear, besides the namecalling and inability to respect any differing points of view is not the sign of a reasonable mind i'd consider the prerequesite of a good academic - whatever their political leanings.
Also, you seem to be suggesting that he should limit his comments to economics because he's an economist!
As for European victims of terrorsim that you named. None of them were killed by a bomb exploded in a European city so that doesn't disprove my point.

Still a lot of lessons to be learned, I'm afraid.

Not to worry, though. There are a whole lot of self-proclaimed victims, justified by all those many seeking avidly to understand just what makes them tick, who are very, very eager to teach them.

Not exactly the Socratic method, alas. Still, one must learn one's lessons where and when one can.

I guess my response is that if Ali can't say for sure who was responsible, how can he know so well their motives? Perhaps the bombings were carried out by hardliners in demand for INCREASED support for the US and the war in Iraq! In the strange strange world of Tariq Ali no one knows and anything goes.