Re: Arundhoti Roy

he has also written recently on recent events, and i have alos cribbed
from him in  some of what i sent out
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Talmadge Wright
wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:33:46 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Talmadge Wright <twright@orion.it.luc.edu>
> To: George Snedeker <snedeker@concentric.net>
> Cc: psn <psn@csf.colorado.edu>, wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> Subject: Re: Arundhoti Roy 
> 
> 
> A book I have heard no one mention on this list, and which I have found
> quite informative on the conlict is: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil &
> Fundamentalism in Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid (Yale University Press)
> 2000. I highly recommend this. There are several books out there on the
> Taliban, but this makes a more explicit connection to the oil business and
> to gender issues. It seems that when a crisis likes this strikes us, there
> is a lot of breast beating and postering, but little critical analysis
> from a subtle Left perspective (although there are quite a few slogans
> thrown around). We need to be better informed about what we are talking
> about, myself included. Confusing a moral position with critical analysis,
> and then compounding it by conflating political eocnomy and culture just
> adds to further misunderstandings.
> 
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> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, George Snedeker wrote:
> 
> > here is a new essay by Arundhati Roy on the war against Afghanistan. it's a
> > good read.
> >
> 
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