[lbo-talk] Amnesty Report: Hezbollah War Crimes

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 14 11:01:01 PDT 2006


On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Eric wrote:


> Your analogy assumes a pretty Orientalist view of "the" Lebanese
> people; namely, that Hezbollah and the Lebanese are identical--they
> are both "prisoners." So for you, Lebanon's citizens have no agency
> themselves; they are merely the appendage of whatever state or
> state-in-waiting you decide gets to represent them.

Carrol loves to say outrageous shit, then to shrink from defending it when called on its absurdity.



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