And folks wonder why the left keeps losing allies. Which is where this discussion started.
-- Nathan
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Mage" <jmage at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 4:50 PM Subject: Re: Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation
> Justin wrote:
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> > Oh,s o Georgoe Porgie's Napolean nopw,a nd the US Army is the ARmy
> > of the Republic, spreading Enlightenment hither and yon. We ha
> > have another Hitchens in in the making, I fear. I mean, Nathan,
> > this is totally laughable, or would be if it were not so sad.
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> now now Justin, give a fair account of Nathan's argument du jour which I
> think goes as follows:
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> what's really important lies between the rio grande and the great lakes
> and it's the democratic party and the afl-cio and anyway wogs start at
> ciudad juarez and besides which they are just waiting for the
> strategic air command to lay some democracy on them like in venezuela
> where it was bizarre that people here were complaining that the US was
> spending big bucks to overthrow chavez since the money came through the
> national endowment for democracy and the democratic party and the
> afl-cio so how could chavez be democratically elected? so that's no
> legitimate government and probably the venezuelans made a mistake voting
> anyway and all these difficulties come from being confused by nonsense
> notions like international law and imperialism when it's all so clear to
> nathan just which US bombings are good and which are not and which
> governments are legitimate and which governments are not legitimate and
> so it's all such a waste when nathan could decide since it's all so
> clear to him and after all he's never been wrong about anything ever and
> with a track record like that and if induction is what it's cracked up
> to be can't we just let nathan decide and in the meantime while we're
> waiting for everyone to come around to this obvious solution why can't
> we just be friends with the nice lefty prowar folks since after all
> they're in the democratic party and maybe even the afl-cio and are the
> most important friends and allies of real lefties like nathan since the
> bill that ends bankruptcy for working people they're pretending to support
> hasn't passed yet due to the efforts of the anti-abortionists ?
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> john mage
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