[lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work

[ravi]

At around 19/11/06 1:24 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 
>> I do know that we, including you and I, are indirectly responsible for
>> the deaths of the poor Shi'ite workers in the story, the
>> responsibility that you refuse to acknowledge.
> 
> That's preposterous. You & I are responsible because we couldn't stop
> George Bush from invading Iraq? What the hell were we supposed to do?
> 

Surely there is more we could have done than we did? Isn't this the
point Chomsky makes among other places in "the responsibility of
intellectuals"? (substitute "intellectuals" with "those in the aggressor
nation with relatively high levels of freedom").

	--ravi