"This probably sounds unfair to Robin, but I am going to post it anyway. There has already evolved the idea that rants like mine (those done much better that is, with plenty of factual detail) are somehow just opinions, and opinions of the left, which therefore don't count, because of their `bias'. Let's use as an example, Sy Hersh's essay on Abu Ghraib. An essay on the wrong doing of government complete with names, dates, facts, and the concrete content of who, what, when, and where, is now interpreted as an opinion and opinions obviously have their bias!
See? Facts have been transformed into opinions. That is exactly how Vietnam, as well as the history of neoliberal policies have been cleansed of their content."
...and the theoretical foundations of this position were nicely laid out by the post-modernists. Which is why nobody ever got denied tenure for being a postmodernist theorist.
Joanna