Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> Who's asking about every one of such? We're talking about one that's
> happening right now. Would you have told Bernard Fall he was wasting
> people's time?
Bernard Fall was writing from Vietnam. (He was later killed there, I think by a sniper.) His point was that tales of NLF atrocities were silly and proved nothing. In other words, he was making the same point about the Vietnam War that I am making about the Iraq War. Travis has made the point even more clearly, and more politely than I, so his argument can't be rejected on the basis that he's a nasty person. :-)
Leninology is correct that it's a "problem" for the resistance, but that doesn't bear on what is at issue here. As Travis points out, focusing on such incidents (or patterns of such incidence) among citizens of the 'mother country' adds up to support for more repression. I didn't read the article the headline of which I reported this morning -- but no doubt Obama in his speech urging that 'we' stop coddling Baghdad would have been making exactly the same kind of point Doug seemed to be making. _At best_ it is the detached argument of the observer who gives not a shit about the lives of those he observes from a distance; at worst it is propaganda supporting the u.s. invasion.
Carrol
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