[lbo-talk] Left Hook Interviews Goff

Samuel Fassbinder senorefe at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 7 10:25:39 PDT 2004


--- Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org> wrote:


> Leftists voting
> for Kerry don't
> believe this -- we think that Bush is far more
> dangerous, with the
> people around him, than any of those guys has ever
> been.

SDF: How do you know a strong Kerry would be less dangerous than a weak Bush?


> Wonderful! "The worse the better" again! That's what
> these Leftists for
> Bush always come up with when you let them chat on
> long enough. The
> "crisis of legitimacy" Nixon caused really brought
> the Revo an awful
> lot closer, didn't it? :-)

SDF: First we read that Bush isn't like Nixon. Then we read that Bush IS like Nixon. Which one is it?


> Right now, I'd settle for just stopping the car. If
> Goff thinks that a
> defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq would turn the
> public against the
> system, he should take another look at what happened
> after the Vietnam
> defeat. Most Americans are way too patriotic and
> pro-military,
> unfortunately, to draw the conclusions he wants them
> to draw.

SDF: Goff is pro-military, too. And most Americans won't draw MY conclusions, either, but that doesn't stop me from publicizing them.

Otherwise I don't buy the analogies with Vietnam. Iraq isn't Vietnam. US hegemony is a LOT closer to collapse now than it was in 1975.

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