-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:29 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Official "Jewish Leaders"
ravi wrote:
>you used to be uneasy about knee-jerk anti-USism (the argument above is
>an extension of that emotion, unless you are an out and out pacifist,
>which I do not believe you are)!
Nope, I'm not.
>Where do you guys get "always believe military force is the solution"?
I didn't say that. I said that there are a lot of liberals who desperately want to be seen as not-wimps. Thus the enthusiasm for bombing Serbia (see the report of the Dissent confab at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Dissent.html>; it now can be revealed that the anon source was Liza Featherstone). I do think, as a matter of empirical record bordering on principle, that nothing involving the US military is good, or can be good. There's no way the Pentagon should be recruited to "save Darfur." For Americans, our prime responsibility is to stop the abuse of Iraq, and everything else should take a back seat to that for now.
Doug ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk