Re: Jack Smith on double standards

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> [This just showed up on the Marxism list. Jack must have been reading Doug
> Henwood's mind.]
>
> > From Jack A. Smith
>
> HOW POLITICALLY SAVVY ARE YOU?
> To find out, please answer these two questions.  Answers at bottom.
>
> 1.  What do you call it when rich imperialist countries infiltrate huge
> amounts of cash into a small country to fix an election?
>
> 2. What do you call a government which has 18 opposition parties that
> operate freely, publish their own newspapers, accept money from
> countries which launched a 78-day bombardment just a year earlier and
> participate in elections?
>
> Answer to question 1: You call it democracy.
>
> Answer to question 2: You call it a dictatorship.

My memory is getting kind of reliable now that I'm careening towards
AARP eligibility, but I don't recall ever having said a kind thing
about U.S. foreign policy, in Serbia or anywhere else in the world.
Perhaps it's a juvenile position, but I think the regimes headed by
Milo and Clinton both suck(ed).

Doug