Re: N. Korea

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Baker responded to my post and, among other things, referred to the
issue of "On Kim Jung Il starving his own people" which was a statement made
by Kurt Nimmo which I chose not to deal with in the correspondence I posted.

I don't know about others on this list, but when I'm confronted with people
(like Nimmo in this case) with clear opinions that so-and-so is a Stalinist,
or, in this case, "Kim Jung-Il has starved his country" etc., I really feel
it's a total waste of my breath and my time to bother to respond - I know
I'm not going to change his mind on those issues (if the two of us were
debating in a public forum, of course the situation would be different, but
this was a private discussion). But in this case, I DID think I could take
on one specific point ("crazed"), with the idea in mind that I can make him
think twice the next time he would have used that phrase, thereby helping to
eliminate that kind of objectively pro-imperialist language from his
writing. We'll see if I succeeded.

Just a few days ago, in a similar way, I managed to get David Krieger
(president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation), also writing on the
CounterPunch website (http://www.counterpunch.org/krieger06062003.html), to
agree that referring to the two Iraqi trailers as "presumably meant for
making biological weapons" was a serious error (and presumably one that will
no longer appear in his writing or speaking).

Revolutionary change requires lots of small steps (as well as some huge
ones).

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