[lbo-talk] Cuban HDI

[Brad DeLong]

>On 24/4/2003 4:32 AM, "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org"
><lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:
>
>>  Seems to me that nobody is saying that Nathan and Leo are wrong about
>>  Castro's latest despicable actions. All people are saying is that it
>>  isn't politic to mention them.
>>
>>  Be very, very careful: the world is full of people who are trying to
>>  communicate the truth as they see it. If you're not even trying to
>>  communicate the truth as you see it--if you're shading what you
>>  communicate in the interests of being politic--you go straight to the
>>  bottom of lots of people's to-be-read piles...
>>
>>
>>  Brad DeLong
>
>
>Though in this case the reason why it is impolitic is of profound
>significance. It's not as if we are being respectful to an embarrassing
>relative, it's rather that we shouldn't be joining the chorus demanding that
>the madman go on another rampage.
>
>Thiago

That's not what Leo and Nathan are doing. And I think you're smart 
enough to know that that's not what Leo and Nathan are doing...

Brad DeLong