[lbo-talk] Fixers

[Michael Smith]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 14:07 -0800, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:51 -0800, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >> Christian Parenti's "fixer" in Afghanistan had his head cut off by
> >> the Taliban earlier this year. For supporting "humanitarian
> >> imperialism" no doubt.
> >
> >
> > No doubt at all, I'd say. With or without the quotes.
> 
> That's really nasty. How do you know that? 

As regards the individual, of course I don't; just going on the odds.
Maybe he was an exception to the usual pattern. So "no" doubt was
clearly too strong.