>The harsh response to Rorty may have something to do with his
>penchant for gratuitous, con-baiting asides, such as the one in which he
>absurdly states that "we caused the death of a million Vietnamese out of
>sheer macho arrogance." In the course of the book, Rorty sets even
>liberal teeth on edge with such outlandish statements
But we did cause the death of a million Vietnamese out of sheer macho arrogance...
Brad DeLong