[lbo-talk] Thaddeus Russell: Why Liberals Kill

JC Helary brandelune at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 17:31:21 PDT 2009


On 21 oct. 2009, at 08:11, Joseph Catron wrote:


> "What too few Americans realize—especially the president’s anti-war
> supporters, who accuse him of betraying liberal or 'progressive'
> values—is that if he accedes to General Stanley McChrystal's request
> for more troops in Afghanistan and intensifies the drone attacks in
> Pakistan, he will follow squarely in the footsteps of the great
> liberal statesmen he has cited as his role models. Though opponents of
> the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cheered loudly when Obama spoke
> reverentially in his campaign speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow
> Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy, those
> heroes of the president promoted and oversaw U.S. involvement in wars
> that killed, by great magnitudes, more Americans and foreign civilians
> than all the modern Republican military operations combined."

Dennis Perrin wrote a book about that:

http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Mules-Democrats-Endless-War/dp/1844672654

Jean-Christophe Helary



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