Hitch playing a lefty on TV....

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Oct 19 09:19:30 PDT 2002


"Peter K." wrote:
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>
> What planet are you on? Hawaii? Smoking a little too much weed?
> I'll stand by the assertion that the view that the American government
> maliciously lied during the Vietnam War and its arms for hostages/
> money for contras dealings isn't very patriotic or right wing.
>

I held this naive view very strongly at one time, and we used up a lot of energy pointlessly in establishing that the government lies. The usual response: "So? What else is new? What do you think of the Bears' chances this Sunday?"

It's worthwhile knowing what the government's lies are -- and of course such writers as Chomsky, Z (dull or lively is irrelevant), even the _Nation_, take care of that pretty well. But the information is of no particular use in agitation or organizing. If Hitchens is depending on calling Bush et al liars to maintain his "left"credibility, he is the one who is living on another planet.

Carrol



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