>From: "Doug Henwood"
>> Last night, in a debate with Gideon Rose of the Council on Foreign
>> Relations, Tariq Ali said the defeat of Bush "would be viewed
>> globally as a victory." Does this make Tariq a liberal now?
>>
>wouldn't it be better if Bush won ? A 'Democrat' elected and the ouster of
>Bush may be viewed as a victory in the short term but as we know there is
>very little difference in the two regimes. The US public will perhaps
>breathe a collective sigh of releif and settle back down to soporific
>television and candyspinning pundits -same old same old. The backlash from a
>Bush second term could propel said public into a more critical mode.
Jon Johanning wrote:
>I don't think *anybody* on this list holds the "the worse the
>better" position. If they do, let them speak now or forever hold
>their peace.
Seems there's at least one.
Tariq was expressing - accurately, I think - the views of hundreds of millions, maybe even billions, of people around the world. Is he wrong?
Doug