Re: [OT] free Cindy Sheehan!

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
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> this is proof, once again, that Chairman Mao's dictum that "the enemy
> of my enemy is my friend" is total and utter BS.

I don't remember Mao saying exactly that. I do remember something like
it, though I can't remember the exact wording, and when I read it I both
disagreed and _also_ saw, in the context in which he said it, that it
made some sense. Something like it was, of course, the foundation of the
United Front Against the Japanese invacion. And it is easy to make up
hypothetical (but reasonable) situations in which it holds. If a
purse-snatcher scares off a would-be rapist, for example. I would say
the dictum (as you phrase it) is neither right nor wrong in the
abstract. Its whole meaning depends on context.

Carrol