On Jun 27, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:07:23 -0400
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> I care what
>> Iranians are thinking and doing, and whether the nature of the
>> Iranian
>> regime squares at all with my ideas of justice.
>
> Doug, these two interests may not be entirely harmonious. Suppose
> most Iranians don't share your ideas of justice -- where in that
> case do you land?
My ideas of justice affect what I think and say about events in Iran (cue Carrol Cox and his sandbox), but it's up to Iranians, not me, of course. But I think there are a lot of Iranians who do share my ideas of justice, all the tendencies of the Western left to exoticize them aside.
Doug