[lbo-talk] Switching Sides

123hop at comcast.net 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Apr 23 11:12:16 PDT 2012


One of my favorite all time pictures is that of the soviet flag flying over the rubble of Berlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdbv_n5Ivfg

Joanna

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A sensitive read of Andrew Bacevic would (probably against his will) place him on the left. In my discipline (okay my Masters and PHD were in International Political Economy, but I can claim International Relations), he presents himself as Conservative, but his work is profound for its intellectual honesty.

He most pithily observed that the whole idea that the US saved Europe during the second world war was rubbish since the Soviet Union had already done the dirty work.

To be sure, a true-blue-blooded conservative would rarely, if ever:

a) deny that the US was the great saviour of Europe b) give the former Soviet Union any credit

Ismail Lagardien

Nihil humani a me alienum puto

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