[lbo-talk] Re: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 17 13:13:03 PDT 2004


BklynMagus wrote:


>Much of the right's success comes
>from saying that they are maintaining the status quo -- keeping things as
>they are.

Not entirely. Reagan and Thatcher appropriated the language of revolution, and portrayed the left as backward-looking, nostalgic, and frightened of the future. Virginia Postrel even listed our man Tom Frank as an "enemy of the future."

Doug



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