http://www.onlinejournal.com/archive/06-17-02_Binion.pdf
>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fisk avoiding facts? really?
>Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:25:35 -0600
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>cian wrote:
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> > Note, none of the events described by Parenti happened in secret. It all
> > involved the organisations you would suspect, and the discussions took
>place
> > in public. The more interesting question (and one that Chomsky, amongst
> > others, have tried to answer) is how they can take place so openly, and
>yet
> > be ignored.
>
>(I agree that _all_, not just some, of the important and interesting
>conspiracies take place in the open, and can be discovered by anyone who
>reads the major capitalist newspapers.)
>
>I don't think there is one answer to Chomsky's question. I will suggest
>one reason that accounts for why one large group of liberals and
>leftists ignore them. See how often Democratic Party positions (or the
>position of this or that DP politician) is explained on the basis of the
>"cowardice" or the "dishonesty" of DP politicians. That is, consider the
>huge number of leftists and left-liberals who are unwilling to accept
>the fact that the DP's actions are in more-or-less perfect accord with
>its intentions. They believe that the DP is "really" on our side but
>simply lacks the courage to do what it knows is right.
>
>Clinton destroyed public aid because he intended to destroy public aid,
>_not_ because he was afraid to defend it and _not_ because he wanted to
>gain votes, but because he was against public aid in principle. In
>principle he really wanted more americans to suffer, because that was to
>the long-run advantage, he believed, of "The Nation" (i.e., an important
>sector of the ruling class).
>
>And Clinton destroyed the lives of millions of Iraqi citizens and
>prepared the way for Bush _not_ because he was afraid the Republicans
>would gain votes but because he really believed whole-heartedly that in
>order to maintain u.s. hegemony it was necessary and desirable to
>inflict visible pain on the people of any nation whose leaders did not
>leap to the u.s. will. He wasn't stupid. He knew Sadaam was no threat.
>He knew that u.s. oil supplies were safe regardless of who ruled in
>Iraq. But he believed that the whole world had to be taught a lesson,
>and that only large pain and misery for the people of Iraq could teach
>that lesson.
>
>And the majority of left liberals and far too many radicals and
>revolutionaries cannot recognize that open conspiracy because they have
>to believe in the basic good intentions of the DP. Just as people
>believe in a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy because they want to hold
>on to their belief that some day, some where, there will be a DP
>President who will follow a progressive policy, and faith in Kennedy is
>a candle in the darkness to maintain that faith.
>
>Carrol
>
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