[lbo-talk] see you later

[bhandari at berkeley.edu]

Julio Huato condemns Dabashi's roughly equal treatment of Ahmadinejad's
and Bollinger's comments! Ravi and Michael Smith and now even Marvin
Gandall chime in with their support
for Huato's tough minded criticism. Yet Dabashi devotes more than TEN
TIMES  more words to the criticism of "the deeply racist" Bollinger than
to Ahmadinejad whom he considers "vastly superior" to the Shah and the
mullah thugs! The question is how  screaming facts could have been missed
by seemingly thoughtful people.

Or how it could be missed that while Huato and comrades are laughably
verbsoe in commands that Americans only condemn their own state, their
posts actually never offer a real critical analysis of US foreign policy
in the Middle East.

If leftists are really concerned about stopping the US war machine, they
should be rallying behind Dabashi's credible and fact filled analysis
rather than taking the cheapest of shots against him.

If they allow the Huato's and Furuhashi's to eclipse Dabashi, then they
will have contributed to US imperialism.

But you know what? You all can read Huato, his lackey Ravi and the bizarre
Furuhashi and the eloquent and thoughtful Michael Smith.

I'll take leave to read Dabashi's history of Iran.

Good bye. Rakesh