> --gosh seth, you're the media critic, not me, you have much greater
> knowledge of the way the the prowar party frames their arguments in the
> media. Geras is a supporter of the invasion and the occupation, he will
> say ANYTHING to justify that position. Who is Norm Geras to tell me or
> any of us who we should or should not support? I take his advice as
> seriously as I do Hitchens or Horowitz.
I don't like Geras' position on the war, but I thought he made a decent point in criticizing Pilger for urging support for the resistance. Why should we support people who are trying to take over Iraq by blowing up civilians? As you keep pointing out, the occupation is an important issue and it's worth thinking about what we're for and what we're not. Fulminating about the awfulness of the invasion just seems like a way of avoiding Geras' argument.
Seth