>Peter K. wrote:
>
>>During the Vietnam war, you'll remember, the popular anti-war
>>movement actually accomplished things. I don't seem to recall that
>>people would say stuff like "I wish the US would stop acting like a
>>bully, but I would cheer if they killed Ho Chi Minh."
>
>No doubt there was a lot of uncritical cheering of the Vietcong in
>the 1960s, but still there was something to admire in what they
>stood for - and when Eugene Genovese famously said he'd welcome a VC
>victory, he was right. There is nothing to admire in ObL. More than
>a year later, a lot of antiwar/antiimperialist people have yet to
>process the implications of that fully.
And vice versa too. Hitch - who's stopped responding to my emails inviting him to be on the radio - seems to intoxicated by the evil of AQ that he's now blind to the crimes of U.S. imperialism, except as they're embodied in the person of Henry Kissinger. It's like Kissinger's become the container for all the horrific violence perpetrated by the U.S., leaving the rest of the structure innocent.
Doug