[lbo-talk] dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership

[Jim Straub]

Yoshie, I'm not sure I get this.  You're saying that the vast majority of
leftists were for the iraq war till recently.  But during the runup to the
invasion, and ever since then, I've spent a ton of time on anti-war
activism, when possible; marched in by now two dozen demos.  Many thousands
of other people were marching too.  I kind of think that those people were
against what we were doing in Iraq.  Certainly its true that majority
opinion in the US has been pretty reprehensible on Iraq, only turning from
it now and on mostly fucked up grounds.  But to extend that to the left?  I
don't get it.  Most of my friends are on the left, and almost all of them
have been of the opinion 'out now' throughout.  I have only one friend who
equivocated for awhile during the post-invasion occupation; a social
democrat who's alaways been of mediocre caliber on issues of imperialism, it
was a major issue of great rancor between him and I and many of his comrades
as well.