Re: Fwd: Gitlin on Leftist Interventions

[Michael Yates <mikey+@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Albert takes Gitlin over the coals in the most recent Z
Magazine. Gitlin's article is really fucked up and he is too for writing
it.

michael yates

Paul Flewers wrote:
>
> Macdonald Stainsby cited: < The End of the Absolute No: The American
> left's reflexive opposition to US military intervention broke down over
> Kosovo. A veteran activist says it's about time. >
>
> Why doesn't Todd Gitlin do a little more heart-searching. Then he can
> find sure-fire reasons to support not merely the Gulf War against that
> nasty Saddam Hussein, but also Britain's war against Argentina (that
> fascist junta stealing nice democratic Britain's precious islands),
> France and then the USA in Vietnam, the USA and Britain in Korea (those
> totalitarian communists toppling one domino after another), France in
> Algeria, Britain and France in Suez (that awful Gamal Nasser stealing
> the Suez Canal), to mention just a few, and of course Britain, France
> and Imperial Russia against Germany in 1914 (poor little Belgium).
>
> Paul F