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

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sat Jan 8 11:01:29 PST 2005


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>


> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >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 don't agree with this, but I'd bet they'd say that intervening in
> Yugo was "stopping a genocide" with minimal damage to civilians -
> while the war in Iraq was a pointless aggression that's done violence
> to many civilians.

That's what many of them would say and believe. There's also the whole nation building in an anti-Western culture bit. The contrast between Clinton and Bush should've played a larger part in my thinking--I'd never thought that the Bushies would prove to be so incompetent in Iraq.

-- Luke



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