[lbo-talk] Image Restoration via Truthiness: American Media and Russia

[rayrena]

A thought-experiment: If proper names in the conversations
about this war were changed, would people on this list be so
sure in their moral clarity? That is, if one substituted the
name Bush for Putin and United States for Russia, would
people be so keen to plea for someone to stop the assault?
Or would those actions be called "humanitarian imperialism"
or some such? 


> This is part of that "moral sanity" thing I was talking
> about the other day.
> 
> --- On Thu, 8/14/08, Dwayne Monroe
> > <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > So very odd, that.  Because, when I hear about missiles
> > launched
> > against cities and towns, I don't think: 'hmmm, I
> > wonder who has a
> > moral ground to complain about those missiles raining
> > down on
> > civilians?' I imagine what life (and death) would be
> > like under such a
> > barrage.
> > 
> > 
> > I also wonder what it would take to stop the assault.