US guilt

[Brad DeLong]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "joanna bujes" <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com>
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:29 PM
>Subject: Re: US guilt
>
>
>>  At 02:56 PM 04/24/2002 -0400, I wrote:
>>  Yeah, the fact is that the guilt did not kick in until 1967 or 1973.
>>
>>  Joanna
>
>So, if it wasn't in the interest of the ruling class (apparently a static
>entity from '48-'02) for the majority of the public to feel bad about the
>Holocaust, they wouldn't?
>
>-- Luke

A large chunk of the guilt still hasn't kicked in. At the meeting 
where I met  Andrei Ilarionov, I said that I feared U.S. steel 
tariffs would greatly harm the interests of the workers of 
Magnitogorsk--and that the U.S. has never acknowledged the debt that 
it owes their grandparents for building the tanks that broke the back 
of the Nazi army.

Something totally obvious, historically completely true--yet never 
said inside the U.S. Hell, DeeDee Myers thought I was an idiot for 
saying that Yeltsin should be invited to the 1994 DDay commemoration.

At least Ilarionov seemed to like it...

Brad DeLong