It's funny to hear Charles Brown characterize Yoshie's current thinking as fresh, since it sounds a lot like a recap of the stuff much of the Iranian left thought in the late 1970s. (I posted chunks of Val Moghadam's essay on precisely that topic here a few weeks ago.) I.e., the clerics were ok, anti-imperialism trumps all, liberals are fellow travelers of imperialism, etc.
Doug
^^^^ CB: See what I mean. You're sharp as a tack these days.
I missed Moghadam's essay. Also, an Iranian left position from 1979 might be new to the US left today.
By the way, shouldn't anti-imperialism trump quite a bit for the US left ? Aren't US liberals copartners of imperialism ?