Re: [Marxism] Iran crackdown

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter Lippmann wrote:
> Just because the United States government has publicly announced
> it is actively funding dissident groupings in a major project to 
> destabilize the Iranian government should have no influence when
> thinking about these events. The Iranians have no reason at all
> to think that Washington would want to overthrow a government in
> that country, would they? They must be completely irrational and 
> we should discount any such notions. Time to crank up the noisy
> campaign against "radical Islam" right about now, isn't it? 
> God isn't great, says Christopher Hitchens.

You could of course use this line of reasoning to have supported the 
Moscow trials in the late 30s. Given Walter's crypto-Stalinist evolution 
over the past 20 years or so, this makes perfect sense.

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