[lbo-talk] Dissentoids dissent

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 2 21:01:53 PDT 2006


Hilarious. One of the funniest things Cockburn has ever written.

--- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Once again, in the archives here.
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2001/2001-September/017976.html
> Dennis dperrin13 at mediaone.net
> >From the January 21, 1980 Press Clips column in the
> Village Voice.
> For Michael P.
>
> "We all have to go one day, but pray God let it not
> be over
> Afghanistan. An unspeakable country filled with
> unspeakable people,
> sheepshaggers and smugglers, who have furnished in
> their leisure hours
> some of the worst arts and crafts ever to penetrate
> the occidental
> world.
>
> "I yield to none in my sympathy to those prostrate
> beneath the Russian
> jackboot, but if ever a country deserved rape it's
> Afghanistan.
> Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics
> with views as
> medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
> . . .
>
> "Your Afghan's idea of a jolly good party is to cut
> off the balls of
> his foe, stuff them in his mouth and leave him as an
> object of
> derision in the local square. The British found this
> out, as they
> retreated pellmell across the passes, and so too has
> Ivan."
>
> And now Uncle Sam?
>
> DP
>
> --
> Michael Pugliese
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