[lbo-talk] gotta' love those damn liberals

[Sean Andrews]

I don't feel "icky" about it.  I feel like it's a completely hypocritical
way of going about the world--saying you're for freedom and justice and
using unmanned drones called "Predators" to distribute it.  I generally
don't support killing as a practice, but I certainly feel less culpable if
it is being done by warring tribes within a country than when my government
is employed in the slaughter.  Is that such a strange position?  Should I
not feel more responsible when my taxes are paying for a war waged by my
democratic government than when there is simply a war going on anywhere in
the world?  I think my relationship with the killing done by my nation state
is a bit more pertinent than the philosophical problem of killing in
general.  First things first, log vs. splinter, etc.  And, as Nicholas
points out, it is a clear contradiction to see the Nobel Peace Prize winner
not only increasing troop levels, but doing so without even a hint of
ideological cover.

s

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 03:28, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> If the US and co. pull their troops out of Afghanistan, is the war there
> going to stop? Or is the issue here that the killing is being done by the
> US, rather than some other force, and so Americans feel icky?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 8:53:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] gotta' love those damn liberals
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> Yes, but what does Richard Seymour call it when liberals don't even bother
> to acknowledge, much less defend, murder?  Monday?
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> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 21:38, Nicholas Ruiz III <editor at intertheory.org
> >wrote:
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> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/world/asia/01orders.html?_r=1&hp
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> > Obama Issues Order for More Troops in Afghanistan
> > Robert Gibbs,
> > the White House press secretary, declined to say how many additional
> > American troops Mr. Obama had approved, but senior administration
> > officials have said that about 30,000 would be sent in phased deployments
> > over the next 12 to 18 months, bringing the total American presence in
> > Afghanistan to around 100,000.
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