<DIV>It's sure encouraging to know that people at Berkeley read so carefully. Every time I encounter something like this I marvel that I didn't get tenure at a good school. The standards are obviously not high. </DIV>
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<DIV>The quoted passage occurred as part of a paragraph _defending_ the United States' defense against attack in the Pacific war. I _expressly_ said (twice, since Shane also missed it!) that the war was imperialist but justified by just war theory, and that a victory for democratic imperialism was preferable to a victory for quasi-fascist Japonese imperialism. I pointed out that virtually all socialists at the time of every stripe felt the same way, and most of military age signed up to fight. </DIV>
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<DIV>Now we will see who is the next PhD who can't read. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Brad DeLong <delong@econ.Berkeley.EDU></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">>The war against Japan was an imperialist war plain and simple, <BR>>between two imperiali powers;<BR><BR><BR>China views it very differently. The near-genocide Japan perpetrated <BR>on China during WWII approached (but did not match) what the Nazis <BR>tried to do to the Russians. The Japanese fascist state was an <BR>extremely ugly thing. I am surprised that so many people avert their <BR>gaze from it.<BR><BR><BR>Brad DeLong<BR><BR><BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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