[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn on India: wrong? (was, U.N. seeks aid...)

[ravi]

Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> It's almost as if some people would have prefered
> universal poverty and collapse for the Russian
> population so they could see their theories validated.
> ;) You would think the 50% drop in poverty under Putin
> would have been something to applaud or at least take
> note of.
> 

ack, don't go there (and force me to respond with the old cliche about
the trains running on time under mussoulini)... the US right likes to
say: the left would prefer american troop deaths and more iraqi bombings
so they could see their theories validated. they are wrong of course
(not that i speak for the left, but burden of proof, etc...).

	--ravi