numbers problems

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Oct 27 07:11:19 PDT 2001


Numbers games (like conspiracy theories) are bad politics. They shift attention from issues that can be debated to issues that belong in a lab or a courtroom. Even if it were proven that someone was lying about the casualties, it would be of no help to the antiwar movement. Just as proof that the CIA murdered Kennedy would have the concrete result of justifying Vietnam (a conspiracy, not an expression of U.S. imperialism).

Carl should cool it. He has better things to say than to quibble about numbers.

Carrol



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