[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jun 19 11:51:20 PDT 2006


ravi wrote:
>
> > But, Carl, what appeals to the U.S public has a *huge* impact on
> ultimate objective reality! A lot more, I will submit, than hoping that
> one (or a few) CIA operatives will be outed, as part of a larger scheme,
> by the right, and such outing will rid us of the evils of the CIA.

Nonsense, and serious nonsense. You can't change history by going after individuals or individual villains. "The U.S. Public" does not get out and demonstrate, raise hell, canvass door-to-door, conduct rallies, rais a ruckus at city council meetings, block traffic, disrupt public meetings, make it necessary for presidents to give speeches only on military bases, close down seaports with strikes. . . .

The U.S. Public says "gee that's terrible" and -- quite sensibly -- goes about its business of getting by from day to day.

Carrol



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