[lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper

[Max B. Sawicky]

As Jo Ellen suggests re: 'overthinking,' you forget that sometimes the
simplest explanation is the best.  People of conscience are convinced that a
genocide is in progress (like me in re: Kosova) and hope against hope that
the Gov would do something about it, and not out of narrow self-interest.
The feared magnitude of the abuse logically encourages one to discount the
potential drawbacks of intervention.

The burden of any critique in my view is giving the participants the benefit
of the doubt, and from that standpoint providing evidence and argument in
criticism of the action.  In this context dwelling on The Motives of Jews in
the absence of evidence gives rise to the ickyness.

mbs

It boggled my mind (in a way predictable evangelical involvement
didn't): how could the Jewish leaders involved in this believe that
this is good for Jewish communities? ?? ???

Later again, I looked into the speakers list and learned of a heavily
Democrat lineup -- Pelosi, Obama, Sharpton, etc. -- and it made some
"sense" in a narrow electoral sense; and I thought of Israel's stance
toward Sudan, the way the Darfur conflict has been framed by the
media,  and other factors that may have led to this new development
and make "sense" psychologically; but over all I still don't think
that the Jewish leaders' initiative and central leadership in this
campaign squares with material interests of ordinary Jews.

Hence my response: "Should we laugh or should we cry?"

--
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://mrzine.org>
<http://monthlyreview.org/>

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