[lbo-talk] Marc Cooper's flipping out over Churchill

[John Adams]

On Feb 6, 2005, at 6:59 PM, philion at stolaf.edu wrote:

> But but you're
> confusing disagreement with distortions of the argument with agreement
> about the argument. No, if you read the entire argument, it's clear 
> that
> he's not referring to elevator repairmen.

I disagree. Were the guards as Auschwitz less culpable than Eichmann 
himself? How about the clerks? The people who ran the showers? The 
kitchen workers? No, if the bond traders were little Eichmanns, then by 
Churchill's argument, the clerks were little Nazis, too. He clearly 
says (and I'm snipping a bit here, but I don't think unfairly) "those 
in the World Trade Center . . .formed a technocratic corps at the very 
heart of America's global financial empire" and only later goes on to 
disambiguate, somewhat, bond traders from regular folks. But it's not 
convincing, joined with all the ranting about kids named Tiffany and 
Ellington. (And what's wrong with naming a kid after Duke Elegant, 
anyway?)

All the best,

	John A