Hitch loves you

[Nathan Newman]

On this point, I agree with Hitch.  I think the mindless sloganeering
sustituting for concrete analysis of the present sitution after S11 was one
of the most depressing things I have experienced in years.  We lost the
debate on the war and even more on the peace, because the public analysis of
the "peace movement" was so disconnected from the reality experienced by the
general population that they tuned it out.   The media may have contributed
with their press blackouts, but that was true in many past peace movements
and the message got out on the streets.  On this movement, I personally know
many LEFTISTS who were tuning out the peace movement because they found it
so uncompelling in its lack of analysis.  Forget the liberals who were
actively alienated by it.

Nathan Newman
nathan at newman.org
http://www.nathannewman.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Hitch loves you

"Members of the left, along with the far larger number
of squishy "progressives," have grossly failed to live
up to their responsibility to think; rather, they are
merely reacting, substituting tired slogans for
thought. The majority of those "progressives" who take
comfort from Stone and Chomsky are not committed,
militant anti-imperialists or anti-capitalists.
Nothing so muscular. They are of the sort who,
discovering a viper in the bed of their child, would
place the first call to People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals."

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/hitchens.htm

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Kevin Dean
Buffalo, NY
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