Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Devine, James wrote:

> yoshie writes:
> > Only those who do not vote for Kerry or Bush have the moral standing
> to criticize foreign terrorists.<
>
> why so much emphasis on an essentially powerless and thus
> meaningless act, an individual vote?

It's testimony to the powers of American assimiliation that several
years of living in Columbus, Ohio, turned a Japanese Marxist (i.e.,
one who sees politics in terms of institutions and structures) into
an American green (i.e., one who sees politics as a matter of
individual moral gestures).

Doug