Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> > No. The real issue is that rare events represent no issue. Things
> > happen. It is intellectually disabling to attempt to analyze mere
> > contingencies.
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> The seem to happen more often in the U.S. than anywhere else. If so,
> that's not a random event.
Pish. Too few episodes to generalize. And besides,
1. Everything anyone has said about the u.s. on the basis of it would still be true if not one such episode had ever happened. Hence focusing on them distracts from seeing how destructive u.s. society and state are.
2. Nine out of 10 lessons drawn will be reactionary.
3. Making some big analytic point out of it should be left to the idiots who writ columns for the WP.
Carrol