>On 5/21/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > some people who are
>really no friends of the
>>values that have characterized the Western left.
>
>Give yourself several years, and see where you stand on Ahmadinejad
>(supposing that he will survive the present and future conflicts in
>those intervening years). You, like many other US leftists, didn't
>immediately think highly of Chavez, argue for the US withdrawal from
>Iraq, etc., but eventually you've come to argue for the positions that
>I have held all along.
Didn't think highly of Chavez? I had his planning minister on the radio in 2002 for a very sympathetic interview - is that early enough for you?
What's with this "immediately" business, anyway? Are we just supposed to embrace everyone who looks vaguely insurgent on first sight?
Doug