[lbo-talk] Koch: Krugman is "lame-brained"

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Well, to use Koch's logic, we should not try to
understand anything either -- a strategy which has
proved remarkably effective in US politics lately, and
in Koch's career. Understand, schmunderstand. Who
needs to unfderstand? What's to understand? They're
bad, we're good, we got guns, wipe 'em out. What was
it that Wolfie just said about levelling the whole of
Iraq?

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> New York Post [Page Six] - October 30, 2003
> 
> CRITICAL KOCH
> 
> ED Koch says New York Times op-ed columnist Paul
> Krugman is 
> "lamebrained." The former mayor is irked by
> Krugman's Oct. 21 column 
> explaining why Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir
> Mohamad attacked 
> Jews before a Muslim leadership conference, when he
> said, "The Jews 
> rule the world by proxy: They get others to fight
> and die for them." 
> Krugman wrote, "So what's with the anti-Semitism?
> Almost surely it's 
> part of Mr. Mahathir's domestic balancing act." Koch
> told us: "There 
> is a French expression, 'To understand everything is
> to forgive 
> everything.' Using Krugman's logic, we should
> understand Hitler's 
> needs and forgive him as well. He needed to blame
> Germany's defeat in 
> World War I on the Jews. Krugman's defenses are lame
> and his column 
> is lame-brained."
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