[lit-ideas] Re: Dr. Cockburn, Bill Bennett, Racist America

From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:34:43 -0400

 Guess the classic example is Robert MacNamara's "100,000" -- the 
> dirty dozen of our socioeconomic sphere sent into high-casualty 
> areas in Vietnam. These we could afford to lose, we reasoned.

I don't think they were pleased to lose them.  They thought they were going
to lose all of Asia to Communism.  Which after all turned out to be just
another religion of sorts.  I don't consider McNamara a liberal.  And after
all we learned about Communism, they were probably right to protect people
from it.  Or try to.  Now, if someone would try to protect people from the
worst excesses of capitalism, I would be happy to support that.

Veronica



> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/10/2005 2:05:14 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dr. Cockburn, Bill Bennett, Racist America
>
>  >>And I have never in my entire life heard a liberal say anything 
> like the statement above.
>
> Guess the classic example is Robert MacNamara's "100,000" -- the 
> dirty dozen of our socioeconomic sphere sent into high-casualty 
> areas in Vietnam. These we could afford to lose, we reasoned.
>
> But yeah, though eugenics was a progressive issue, the piece 
> conflates American FDR New Deal Liberals with leftists of all 
> stripes from Stalin to Kropotkin. That's why it's slander.
>
>
>
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