On my old and abandoned blog, I had quoted Arundhati Roy as follows:
The Iraqi resistance is fighting on the frontlines of the battle against Empire. And therefore that battle is our battle…. Terrorism. Armed struggle. Insurgency. Call it what you want.
One of my respondents notes, rightly, that the material following the ellipsis is not contiguous in Roy’s original text. I regret the error. The source is Peter Hudis’s essay here.
In the correct context, Roy’s words are every bit as appalling:
The Iraqi resistance is fighting on the frontlines of the battle against Empire. And therefore that battle is our battle…. Of course, it is riddled with opportunism, local rivalry, demagoguery, and criminality. But if we are only going to support pristine movements, then no resistance will be worthy of our purity.
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