[lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition

[Bradford DeLong]

>Luke Weiger wrote:
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 4:05 PM
>>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition
>>
>>>  I'm enough of a liberal to think that procedural justice is very
>>>  important. But, aside from the timing issue, which I think is
>>>  critical, I'm still waiting for a good answer to a question I've
>>>  asked here many times: how would you & other petition signers go
>>>  about defending a revolutionary government against the machinations
>>>  of the U.S., which would want to destroy you? There are real spies
>>>  and plotters in Cuba, run from Miami and Langley.

In what sense is Castro's, or Saddam's, or Aideed's, or Milosevic's, 
or Coard's government "revolutionary"? By the time *that's* your 
definition of human progress, the abyss has looked you over quite 
thoroughly...

Brad DeLong