[lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions

Bradford DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Apr 9 15:54:30 PDT 2003



> > Don't be stupid.
>
>I thought you were joking with your designation of the
>Baghdad events as a "pro-war mobilization" and replied
>in kind. If you were serious, then I've gotta tell you
>to follow your own above advice.
>
>I don't think anybody should say what those people are
>thinking from a distance of thousands of miles. Some
>may be "pro-war," some may be happy to be rid of
>Saddam, some may be simply happy to have survived a
>MASSIVE BOMBING. And it seems as some may simply
>frenzied by the mass looting, etc. It's very
>ambiguous, and calling it a "pro-war mobilization" out
>of anything but irony makes you sound like a Fox News
>anchor castigating the "Anti-Liberation Protestors"
>down at Union Square.

So you don't think that the fall of Saddam opens up positive possibilities for the Iraqi people? And you don't think a lot of people in Baghdad are happy at this prospect?

Brad DeLong



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