>But, it isn't always so easy to say, "No one here defends tyrant X,
>" when one deals w/ those M-L realpolitikers who have in the past
>have been upfront about supporting regimes and movements like Assad's
>(wade through the archives of leftist_trainspotters at yahoogroups.com
>which has a few hundred maoists, stalinists and trotskyists who
>routinely excuse or validate breaking those eggs to make that
>omelette that always ends up giving a "left" cover to the same old
>Somoza style brutality.
Who cares what hacks like that think? They're intellectually embarrassing and have almost no political influence.
Doug