[lbo-talk] capital punishment in Iran

[B.]

The "Oh yeah? Well America isn't any better!" defense
of other countries' policies is pretty pathetic. If
something is wrong, it's wrong. The death penalty in
the US is barbaric and I'm guessing a majority on the
list would like it gone. But that the US has such a
policy doesn't mean Iran gets a blank check. America
also allows employers to fire employees under the
flimsiest of pretexts, but that doesn't make it any
more acceptable for, say, Australia to do so, because
of that. It's a non-sequitir.

And now Noam Chomsky is just too damn patriotic? Good
grief. Hey, you were the one offering Daniel Guerin's
_Anarchism_ as a free gift in a banner ad at MRZine,
for a subscription. Noam Chomsky, the American
patriot, wrote the intro to that book. Is it still
available?

-B.

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> But you have no problem with people who admire
America, such as Noam
> Chomsky, despite what its government does in the
world as well as at
> home, nor do I hear you going on about how guilty,
ashamed,
> embarrassed, etc. you feel living here.  You seem to
take America in
> stride, while you can't say the same about Iran. 
You have a problem
> of blindness that comes from nationalism, it seems
to me.