[lbo-talk] De Long Way

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sat Jul 26 09:16:22 PDT 2003


There's an important sense (and it would be more trouble than it's worth to explain what that sense is) in which both the US and the USSR didn't choose to fight WWII and hence don't deserve credit for its consequences.

-- Luke

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>
> You don't understand. The good that the US does,
> however infrequent, is systematic; its evils, however
> overwhelming, are incidentala nd accidental. With the
> USSR, it's the other way around. B/c, as Brad
> explains, at Berkleley they have great sympathy for
> peasant if they are victims of Communist oppression,
> but not as the targets of multinational corporations
> and the IMF. Are we clear on things now? jks
>
> --- Alexandre Fenelon <afenelon at zaz.com.br> wrote:
> >
> >
> > -----Mensagem original-----
> > De: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org
> > [mailto:lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org]Em
> > nome de Dwayne Monroe
> > Enviada em: quinta-feira, 24 de julho de 2003 20:22
> > Para: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Assunto: Re:OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student
> > With a History of
> > Taking Left Turns
> >
> >
> > Brad DeLong wrote:
> >
> > WWII alone makes it hard to argue that U.S. foreign
> > policy has been on balance destructive...
> > ********************
> >
> > -So we could say the same thing about the USSR?
> >
> > Alexandre Fenelon
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