Leftists Embrace the Bush Doctrine

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Wed Oct 9 10:20:20 PDT 2002


Justin wrote:

>

>>> tnan with Iraq. The US actually does posea real and well-documented

>>> danger to every nation in the world. In fact, it has recently announced

>>> that it will launch a unilateral preemptive attack on anyone

>>> whom it feels might someday be adanger to its supremacy.

>>> However, this seems to be OK with you.

>

>>

>>

>> That is simply not true.

>

>

> The "recent announcement" is of course true. What W means to dispute

> is that the US poses a threat to anyone we might like.

> "Legitimate" nations--I like that, makes me think of King Lear

> ("Edmund the bastard will top the 'legitimate'"!)--have nothing to

> worry about. Sort of like the argument that incursions on civil

> liberties don't matter because "innocent" people have nothing to

> fear.

Justin, excellent, you're on a roll!

And Chavez was "legitimate" on April 10th, "illegitimate" (for the US gov, the NYTimes & some others) on the day - whichever it was- he appeared to have been successfully deposed by the CIA, and "legitimate" again on the day after he returned.

john mage



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