>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>> I just don't get it. If last year (or the year before) the Iranian
>> government, say, had decided to take out the Taliban and replace it
>> with a less... extreme... government, everyone (or almost everyone)
>> including me would have cheered, just as we cheered when the North
>> Vietnamese took out Pol Pot and the rest of the Khmer Rouge.
>.
>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.
I'm curious about how American leftists reacted to the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, etc. at the time when they happened. -- Yoshie
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