I'd figure a signer of the ICDSM petition for Slobo would have that 'tude.
Well reading Tony Judt is always a must for me...sometimes he's the only regular in the NYRB I bother with. His anti-Zionist piece from a yr. or two ago in the NYRB was excellent, one I found difficult to quibble with, unlike too much left anti-Zionist polemics, almost always heavy on formulaic, over the top rhetoric.
(Hmm. Finkelstein, I don't include in the latter. http://www.ucpress.edu/ "Status of Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah In response to recent publicity about Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Antisemitism and the Abuse of History, by Norman Finkelstein, we are receiving questions about the status of our publication plans for the book. The UC Press continues to work with the author on editorial changes, which we believe will make the strongest possible case for the principal arguments advanced in the book. This has not been an easy process, given the controversial nature of those arguments. We are committed to working with the author to reach a mutually agreeable conclusion and to publish the book as scheduled in August. We consider Professor Finkelstein's work to be of critical importance and deserving of the broadest possible audience.")
And, the review by Judt will update readers who might not want to slog through his new book (which I read the first two or three essays from), that he is now a skeptic on "humanitarian intervention". New book from Univ. of Ca. Press on, "humanitarian interventionism, " and Iraq http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10415.html Introduction: The Liberal-Humanitarian Case for the War in Iraq Thomas Cushman PART ONE RECONSIDERING REGIME CHANGE 1 The Case for Regime Change Christopher Hitchens 2 Liberal Legacies, Europe's Totalitarian Era, and the Iraq War: Historical Conjectures and Comparisons Jeffrey Herf 3 "Regime Change": The Case of Iraq Jan Narveson 4 In the Murk of It: Iraq Reconsidered Mitchell Cohen PART TWO PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS 5 National Interest and International Law Roger Scruton 6 Just War against an "Outlaw" Region Mehdi Mozaffari 7 Moral Arguments: Sovereignty, Feasibility, Agency, and Consequences Daniel Kofman PART THREE CRITIQUES OF THE LEFT 8 A Friendly Drink in a Time of War Paul Berman 9 Wielding the Moral Club Ian Buruma 10 Peace, Human Rights, and the Moral Choices of the Churches Mient Jan Faber 11 Ethical Correctness and the Decline of the Left Jonathan Rée 12 Pages from a Daily Journal of Argument Norman Geras 13 Liberal Realism or Liberal Idealism: The Iraq War and the Limits of Tolerance Richard Just PART FOUR EUROPEAN DIMENSIONS 14 Iraq and the European Left John Lloyd 15 Guilt's End: How Germany Redefined the Lessons of Its Past during the Iraq War Richard Herzinger 16 The Iraq War and the French Left Michel Taubmann 17 Tempting Illusions, Scary Realities, or The Emperor's New Clothes II Anders Jerichow PART FIVE SOLIDARITY 18 Antitotalitarianism as a Vocation: An Interview with Adam Michnik Thomas Cushman and Adam Michnik 19 Sometimes a War Saves People Jose Ramos-Horta 20 Gulf War Syndrome Mark II: The Case for Siding with the Iraqi People Johann Hari 21 "They Don't Know One Little Thing" Pamela Bone 22 "Why Did It Take You So Long to Get Here?" Ann Clwyd PART SIX LIBERAL STATESMANSHIP 23 Full Statement to the House of Commons, 18 March 2003 Tony Blair [24 The Threat of Global Terrorism
One of the books reviewed by Judt is the excellent new book by Bacevich on US militarism. Bacevich, in last weeks The Nation, reviewed favorably the new volume here from U.C. Press by Gareth Porter on JFK, LBJ, the Vietnamese CP, CPSU and CPC and the Vietnam War, http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10089.html Porter, those with long Chomsky contro memories, was a major source in the 2 vols. from South End Press, by Noam and Ed Herman, entangled in the Khmer Rouge genocide #'ers/mainstream vs. rad press contro.Interestingly, left-lib blurbs on the new Porter book, have a neo-con soulmate, Robert Jervis, who writes for Commentary.
On 6/28/05, frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> wrote:
> "...I thought the following lead from a piece in the current NY Review of
> Books was a real collector's item. Btw, I didn't bother to read the whole
> thing..."
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> unfortunately, i read the next two sentences... and then didn't bother to read the whole thing :
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> "The apparent differenceand the reason so many of us cheered when the
> US and its allies went into Kosovo was that Slobodan Milosevic had
> begun a campaign against the Albanian majority of Serbia's Kosovo
> province that had all the hallmarks of a prelude to genocide. So not
> only was the US on the right side but it was intervening in real
> timeits actions might actually prevent a major crime."
>
> fs
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