[lbo-talk] Is the Anti-War movement in decline?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Nov 15 06:52:02 PST 2007


On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> We don't have to pretend anything. We need to say nothing whatever
> about
> the Iraqi existence except that it is an Iraqi resistance, and that
> any
> resistance whatever to a foreign invasion is legitimate. The invasion,
> on the other hand, is criminal.
>
> This urge to expound on what we don't have to discuss at all seems
> to me
> merely self-indulgence, a sort of lust for personal moral purity.

And this sort of declaration has no hint of self-indulgence or moral purity about it?

Not, of course, that there's anything wrong with self-indulgence or the longing for moral purity. It'd just be nice if you'd turn this sort of scrutiny back on yourself now & then, Carrol.

Doug



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