[lbo-talk] the problem with Webb

[C. G. Estabrook]

In his interesting new book, "Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of 
Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism," Bill Kauffman 
writes, typically,

	"The Republicans in the age of George W. Bush have become a war party, nothing 
less and certainly nothing more. Dissident GOP voices are rare and unwelcome 
echoes. Among the Democrats, it is the most culturally conservative national 
figures (Senators Robert Byrd of West Virginia and James Webb of Virginia) who 
have the guts and convictions to take on the Bush policy of hyperinterventionism."

Forced to choose between Webb and TNR, I'd take the former.  --CGE

Doug Henwood wrote:
> [addressed to liberals, but not the only prospective audience]
> 
> <http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=831e71f6-708f-4833- 
> a1cb-1f8352c8c7bf>
> 
> Webb of Deception
> by Richard Just
> 
> Jim Webb isn't a liberal; he's a reactionary. So why are liberals  
> falling for him?
> ...