Cockburn on "crackpot realism"

[Gordon Fitch]

Chip Berlet:
> ... 
> So Cockburn looks clever through a combination of sloppy thinking
> and sloppy research masked by good writing.
> 
> Cockburn is often very good, but sometimes good writing is not
> enough.
> ...

Cockburn's subject doesn't require much analytical power,
however; if what he quoted was at all representative, vanden
Heuvel favors the imperial Bismarckian Welfare-warfare State,
for which events like those of September 11th are indeed a
great boon.  One can call that "the Left" if one wants, but
at the price of a near-total loss of coherent language.

-- Gordon