----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Victory To Iraq
> >This from a man who thinks we should debate whether or not Nato was
> >a sufficient
> >way to stop the impending genocide on the poor Kosovars- and thinks those who
> >call the trial false are simply deluded, but thinks the media is somehow
> >trustworthy on the subject of the trial of Milosevic.
> >
> >One need not be a Spart to realise that of course an Iraqi [victory]
> >would be a good thing.
>
> The High Stalinists had a kind of... Miltonian grandeur. They were
> stooges of a genocidal paranoid madman, yes. But Stalin was a madman
> who genuinely believed that his crimes were necessary steps on the
> road to Utopia.
>
> However, we have fallen far when we willingly become stooges for
> Milosevic or for Saddam Hussein, who have no illusions about their
> regimes being the next stage in the evolution of human society...
>
> It's as if the story of Faust is being retold, this time not as
> tragedy but as farce. To swear allegiance to Josef Stalin is to
> become a vassal of Satan himself. To swear allegiance to Milosevic or
> Saddam Hussein is to become a vassal of... Pazuzu...
>
> Brad DeLong
>
>