[lbo-talk] Client State: Japan in the American Embrace

[ravi]

On 16 Aug, 2007, at 16:29 PM, B. wrote:
>
> But this phrase really caught my eye:
>
> "But there's one last important point: if I can speak
> for Atrios and most progressive bloggers, their
> perspective is not that they're refusing to 'advance
> the debate.' Rather, their point is that as far as US
> foreign policy goes, there is no debate. We can screw
> around on blogs for the rest of our lives, we could be
> proven correct about 100 more wars, and no one with
> our perspective would ever be allowed on TV. Likewise,
> Kenneth Pollack could be catastrophically wrong about
> 100 more wars, and he would still be on Nightline
> every week. That's because being right has absolutely
> nothing to do with 'the debate.' That's the way it is,
> and unless it changes, all the time I spent writing
> this was absolutely pointless."

So, then the question is, does the "screwing around on blogs for the  
rest of our lives" help change the "way it is"?

	--ravi