[lbo-talk] voices from the real America

[Doug Henwood]

My office neighbor develops "cell phone content," whatever that means  
exactly. He also has a booming voice. I'm listening to him arguing  
with a friend on the phone right now about Iraq, and I'm hearing  
every word quite clearly. Some highlights of his argument: "The surge  
is working...people are invested in failure...counterinsurgency takes  
10 years...Anbar Province is showing progress...our oil is wrapped up  
in this...it's working." It's pretty amazing how you can graft a  
bogus argument into an ordinary citizen's mind.