[lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet

Andy F andyf274 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 7 13:13:46 PST 2005


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> To her credit, Sontag did criticize common American
> reactions to the
> 9/11 terrorist attack, which many liberals embraced.
> Most liberals
> don't object to an American war unless it gets as
> bad as the invasion
> of Iraq. To this day, little rethinking on
> Yugoslavia has taken
> place in liberal circles, and it's not clear why
> they think it is OK
> to do "regime change" in Yugoslavia but not in Iraq.

I read it one of the eulogies to her that she later changed her mind about her position on Yugoslavia, saying that she had had some belief in "surgical bombing". Maybe she was just naive, in a different way.

Andy F.

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