I Don't Get It

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Sun Nov 18 15:35:02 PST 2001



>Seth Ackerman wrote:
>
>>If your point is that military interventions should be judged by their
>>merits and not by who is undertaking them, then your point is true and
>>should be obvious to everyone, including leftists.
>>
>>But you seem to assume this is also the attitude of the US government. Take
>>your example of the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia. When you say "we"
>>cheered it, you surely don't include the Carter Administration. Here's
>>Chomsky on that episode:
>
>For those who don't trust Chomsky, try Nayan Chanda's Brother Enemy.
>
>Doug

A very good book...



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