"www.leninology. blogspot.com" wrote:
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> Doug wrote:
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> > I hear echoes of the same kind of thinking that helped lubricate the
> > installation of Khomeini...
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> Is this an unfinished haiku effort, dear? Or is your sense of hearing 'echoes' in any sense related to the maladies of those who hear voices?
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> Or, put it another way, perhaps you could expand on your point a little and stop being such a tease. We won't have teases in our new Islamo-socialist Republic of Amreeka, you know.
I assume Doug is referring to "thinking" among western leftists. If so he is being ridiculous, for no thinking of any kind among western leftists could have made the slightest difference in Iranian politics. Doug often seems to bring to politics the attitude of the fans in a football or baseball stadium. _Hoping_ that the next batter gets a hit may in fact increase the spectator's enjoyment of the game, but it would be bizarre to say that such thinking affected whether or not the batter did indeed get a hit. Doug seems to go that bizarre route and to ascribe actual causal effect to the attitudes of onlookers.
Carrol