[lbo-talk] The Liberal Morality: Shtum on Atrocities

[C. G. Estabrook]

If you mean that ours is a sham democracy in comparison with much more
democratic polities, like Bolivia, I quite agree.

Michael Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:39:31 -0600 "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> 'We' had some effect in regard to civil rights, Southeast Asia, and Central
>>  America.
> 
> Very true. Perhaps I didn't make myself quite clear. I wasn't claiming that
> 'we' were necessarily ineffectual. what I was wondering about was how "our
> government" could be considered "ours" -- except of course in the objective- 
> genitive sense: it governs us.
>