Yes. Good example.Even I in my most addled moments could never find a good justification for Israel's intervention in Lebanon, '82-90.
On the Cockburn, I find google hits that place it from The Nation in Dec. 1979. But, scanning through the archives of The Nation via EBSCO don't find he had his Beat The Devil column till '84? An amazon.com review of his, "Imperial Crusades, " co-edited anthology w/Jeffrey St. Clair of Counterpunch pieces, places it in '79. Look at his Village Voice column then.
I do recall Jim O'Connor at UCSC quoting Cockburn to that effect in a 1982 class. Like Doug, he was for the Soviet intervention to prop up the PDPA. Scanning the archives of The Nation from 1979, I saw about 5 articles from Fred Halliday, shorter versions of his 2 New Left Review articles from then.
On 8/2/06, tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
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> Do you mean like when the Israeli's and the Syrian's were backing the
> Lebanese Christians in the Civil war in a move to kill the strong and
> popular communist party that had as its mandate the end of Lebanon's
> confessional based parliamentary system? Stop cherry picking MP.
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> Michael Pugliese wrote:
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> > And, for you esp. I would think that the extreme
> > repression of Communists by Arab states would be troubling.
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