[lbo-talk] Re: Said

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 26 06:47:23 PDT 2003


--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Who's full of bullshit? Who started this war? Who
> drove whom off what land and wouldn't give them back
> their property? And Bard proves my point by
> accepting
> the reductio I laida t his door: if you are powerful
> enough to win, your bad cause can become just. What
> piece of work you are -- a power worshipper without
> honor or decency, a defender of the rights of the
> "ruch men to dwell apeace in their habitations"
> (Churchill) who spews bile on the grave of the most
> civil and steadfast of the defenders of the rights
> of
> the poor to trouble those rich men -- and, before
> you
> unload more lies about Said the Professor of Terror
> (Poddy, I believe) -- an unremitting opponent of
> terror and violence, both Israelu and Palestimian.
> unlike you, apologist for violence, aggression, and
> repression. jks
>
> --- Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> > >Justin wrote:
> > >
> > >"It's just fighting or resistance on behalf of
> the
> > poor
> > >and the downtrodden that excites Brad's wrath.
> The
> > >powerful can kill without qualm or ruth and still
> > earn
> > >his approbation, indeed, his service and
> loyalty."
> > >
> > >That says it all doesn't it?
> > >Joanna
> >
> > No. It says that Justin's full of bullshit. To
> start
> > a war you are
> > going to lose is always bad. To start a war you
> are
> > going to win is
> > usually bad--it needs to be a very, very *just*
> war
> > to be in any
> > sense justifiable.
> >
> > But I'm going back to my kennel.
> >
> >
> >
> > Brad DeLong
> >
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