[lbo-talk] Iraq war (was: stupidity is most dangerous in people with high IQ)

[michael yates]

Doug says St. Clair is an Edward Abbeyist. What does this mean? Out here in the sticks, we really like Abbey. He liked the kids too. and they loved him. They're still working hard to save these sticks from all the capitalist predators trying their best to destroy them. Abbey had a lot of guts too. Didn't devote his life to endless self-promotion. And he could write! He was a professor and taught the young how to write and to act. Fought against all the big dams, especially Glen Canyon. Wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang. Desert Solitaire. Waged war against the cattlemen. I'd give my eye teeth to have done what he did. And seeing those whom he inspired continue his work fills me with optimism. And I know it does the same for Jeffrey St. Clair. And Counterpunch/AK Press has just published a book by Doug Peacock, another student of Abbey and another great champion of the Western lands. Doesn't sound like doom and gloom to me.