[lbo-talk] Waterboarding etc.

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 23:28:48 PST 2009


Michael Smith wrote:


> That's the hard part, about Obama. Considered
> as an individual -- as far as one can judge these
> things from seeing a guy on TV -- he seems to be
> thoughtful, likable, intelligent. And yet he's
> applied for, and obtained, a post whose job description
> is pretty much what CC said. Isn't it?

I wonder what shadowy forces you think hired him for this job. Who wrote the job description? Who gets to fire him? The Great Keeper of the Keys?

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20090112/000664.html


> Much of the American radical left's approach to analyzing US foreign
> policy seems to be based on the idea that some all-knowing
> master-imperialist once wrote up a Treatise on America's True Imperial
> Interests and then had it locked up in a safe in the bowels of the
> White House. The left's job is to divine the secret contents of the
> Treatise on the basis of the various zigs and zags of American policy.
> In fact, there is no treatise and there are no "true" interests of
> American imperialism. There are only different people with different
> opinions.

SA



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