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...precisely here, at the moment of “Othering,” that this paradigm reveals its affinity for gross, unmitigated violence. Because “terrorists” are placed beyond understanding, their elimination is almost never conceptualized as a political problem, but a military one. Eqbal Ahmed, in an influential 1965 article on counter-revolutionary warfare in Vietnam, suggested that American administrators were destined to decimate the local, civilian population because they began in precisely this way, by rejecting the primacy of politics. Perhaps the best example of this genocidal impulse came not too much later...
Robert Meeropol, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Eqbal Ahmad, co-defendant in the Harrisburg eight trial, will speak as part of a teach-in, "The CIA, Intelligence and Repression," tonight at Boston University Law School...
Susan Redes, a spokesman for the teach-in committee, said yesterday that she expects Meeropol will discuss the Rosenberg case and its relation to domestic intelligence activities. Eqbal Ahmad, she said, will speak on international intelligence practices...
...following article has been specially condensed for the Crimson by David Caploe from a piece he wrote with Eqbal Ahmad entitled "The Logic of Intervention" in the January issue of Race and Class, a quarterly organ of Third World Affairs published by the Institute of Race Relations (London) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), on The US and the Arab World...
David Caploe '73, a former Crimson editor, is working on a book on ideology and strategy in Israel. Eqbal Ahmad is completing, with Michael Klare, a study of the Kissinger foreign policy, entitled "Time Bombs: A Citizen's Guide to US Foreign Policy in the 70s." Both are Fellows of the Third World project of the Transnational Institute...