warning!

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Wed Feb 13 11:19:06 PST 2002


Justin wrote:
> Please explain why the counterfactual is tendentious. The US flattened
> Iran's neighbor, Afghanistan, and put Iran on its list of potential
targets
> for military attack as part of the axis of evil. I just chose a neighbor
of
> ours; Maybe I should have used Mexico? Or maybe yoy think that George W.
> was democratically elected, unlike Khameni?
>
> jks

Oh, yeah, I forgot that Canda's a neighbor and that Bush's legitimacy is questionable at best. In excuse of my poor memory, though, I should note that it wouldn't be funny in the least if some right-winger said that Vietnam's expulsion of the Khmer Rouge from Cambodia would be akin to the US invading Canada and forcibly evicting the Liberal party from power.

-- Luke



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