On Nov 29, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:19:17 -0500
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> But that's not what she said. Did you read the rest?
>
> "She"? I may have cut through a switchback on
> this particular mountain trail. My response was
> to the original question you posed -- that *was*
> you, right?
I'll excise the long quote from the NYT on Karzai's "get out!" sympathies.
> So I started wondering how the Obama fans would justify an
> escalation in Afghanistan when Karzai's been saying he wants us out.
>
> ...
>
> So, this being Thanksgiving weekend, I got to ask an aunt-in-law, a
> prototypical Volvo-driving, Harvard-teaching liberal Democrat, how
> to handle this. Her answer: "He's just saying it for the
> election." (Um, wasn't this supposed to be about "democracy"
> promotion?) When the election is over, he can drop the rhetoric. I
> can't wait to hear more of this.
Doug