Benign/Nefarious (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student . . . .)

[andie nachgeborenen]

Being blasted by our air force and artillery may
affect their fates, even if I conceded that our
intentions were good or the outcome of our
interventions generally good. How about, they havea 
right to be free of our stupid mistakes? There are 4
million dead in Indochina because (at the very best
interpretation someone had the bright idea of saving
the Vietnamese from Communism. Even if Communism was a
bad idea, the saving was a worse one. I therefore do
not accept annihilation for their own good of peasant
societies with the overwhelming force of an advanced
industrialized society as evidence of concern for
their fates. I really want to shake you sometimes,
Luke. I don't understand how someone so smart can be
so dumb. Brad I understand. He's been socialized by
tenure and the Clintons. What's your excuse? jks

--- Luke Benjamin Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> 
> >
> > That would/did make it OK to blast Korean peasants
> to
> > smithereens with bombs and cannons, saved 'em from
> the
> > Kims.
> 
> Their fates matter.  I never claimed that they trump
> all other concerns
> (which I don't think can be reduced to the need to
> stay out of other
> peoples' business so as to allow them to make "their
> own" mistakes).
> 
> -- Luke
> 
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