[lbo-talk] Why not Paul

[Carrol Cox]

As you said in your first post, this game of comparing criminals as to which
was worse is a bit odd. I had forgotten Mossedegh, his overthrow being the
cornerstone of all that has happened in the Middle East. & as the overthrow
of Arbenz led to Rios Montt.. 

I think these comparisons don't really work -- except for the side value of
helping recall 65 years of u.s. crimes around the globe. The overthrow of
Lumumba led to untold horrors in the Congo,  and by following free
association that leads us beck to Leopold, and ...It's all of a piece. 

Carrol

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:05:41 -0500
Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:


> And the coup of Arbenz in Guatemala...

Context seems to have been lost sight of here. 
The point was not to canonize Eisenhower, but to 
compare him to his successor; the starting point was 
somebody's observation that JFK just 'continued'
Eisenhower's legacy. In fact it seems to me that 
Mattress Jack was unquestionably *worse* than 
Eisenhower, bad as the latter was. 

 
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