[lbo-talk] Re: no dissent, we're Americans!

Jonathan Schwarz jonathan.schwarz2 at verizon.net
Mon Jun 2 08:34:58 PDT 2003


Doug Henwood wrote:


> [Peter Beinart's statement is even worse than I could have imagined.]
>
> <snip>
>
> "This nation is now at war," said Peter Beinart, the editor of the
> liberal magazine New Republic. "And in such an environment, domestic
> political dissent is immoral without a prior statement of national
> solidarity, a choosing of sides."

As you may know, he's an alumnus of your proud alma mater. (Which is also mine.) As I like to say, whenever two or more people gather together to destroy what's best about America, you can be sure at least one of them went to Yale.

As bad as that is, though, he didn't say that recently. It was right after the terrorist attacks.



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