[lbo-talk] The very worst custodians of empire

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 6/26/06, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Yoshie wrote:
>
> > On 6/25/06, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> >> The Iranians, North Koreans, Cubans, and others know there is a
> >> qualitative
> >> difference between economic blockade and political subversion and the
> >> large-scale blood and chaos of a US invasion and occupation, and the
> >> Iraqis,
> >> who were bombed and embargoed by the Clinton administration prior to the
> >> Bush invasion, understand it best of all. So should we.
> >
> > Why do we pretend to care about what has, is, or will happen to
> > Iraqis, Iranians, North Koreans, Cubans, and others?  If we really
> > did, we wouldn't live like this.
> =====================================
> You're being unfair and not understanding why people seem to have what you
> characterize as an uncaring attitude bordering on hypocrisy.

Indifference and impotence are two facts of life on the American left.

 The main problem is not so much those facts themselves as American
liberals' and leftists' refusal to admit to them, the refusal that
results in their pronouncements about "what to do about Iraq" being
completely divorced from reality, even more divorced from it than
Republican and Democratic politicians'.  When Republican and
Democratic politicians say something delusional about Iraq, at least
they have the power to act on their respective delusions (and make
others suffer from them).  Not so with us.
-- 
Yoshie
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