[lbo-talk] Protestant fundamentalism: pro-Israel & anti-UN beforethey existed

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>
>What they left needs is an alternative internationalist worldview that
>isn't fundamentalist in the sense that it isn't based on the concept of
>the Enemy.  But internationalism of that sort hasn't been the dominant
>left world view since before WWII. The League of Nations and the UN so
>completely betrayed our faith that we lost it.  But without a muscular new
>vision in that direction, we've completely ceded the debate.
>
>And by a muscular new vision I don't mean the cruise missile liberalism
>that paved the way for the neocons.  I mean a way of thinking that seeks
>to avoid demonization -- the creation of Enemies w/ whom by definition you
>cannot negotiate -- on principle.  For which you need an alternative set
>of principles.  And an alternative far reaching view of how the
>international order ought to be fundamentally changed and how we ought to
>get there.

Hmm, that sounds mighty like a call for the Moral Equivalent of War.  I'll 
see if I can hail William James on my ouija board and get his latest 
thoughts on this ;-)

Carl

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