On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:34:13 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gary, the problem with you is you're a hack. Every > liberal and far-leftist is a good guy, and everyone > who's conservative is not. So you have no > credibility. If you want me - or anyone else who > thinks seriously about these issues - to even listen > to you, you have to at least pretend to be _thinking_ > about these topics. As expected you start off with an attack. >Attacking Keegan's credentials > just makes you look like an idiot. He's a former > lecturer at Sandhurst and author of _The Face of > Battle_, which only re-invented military history. > That was his first book. He's written quite a few > since then. You may disagree with some of his work > but he sort of knows what he's talking about. Much, > much, much better than you do. He is a prolific writer and with his conservative views was a neo-con favorite. Recently his books have been questioned for their accuracy (I gave a link) and judgement (The War in Iraq, I gave another). I also objected to his sweeping judgements about peoples and religion as shown in the interview I cited. The specific quote that this war was "probably the most successful war ever fought by a democracy against a dictatorship" comes from Keegan's recent column where he now turns on the neocon's for losing the aftermath, when he thought the war was won. He blames this on their "post-Marxist" thought patterns, reasoning which doesn't change my opinion of his recent judgement. However, this should mean he is no longer be a neo-con favorite. ;-) I should gve that cite too since you didn't provide it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/06/29/do2901.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/06/29/ixportal.html I question using Keegan as someone who was so obviously wrong about the war he promoted and as someone who can be more fairly described, given his current occupation, as a hawkish Conservative party newspaper "hack." He had some brilliant early work I didn't mention, although I did include the bit about his recent combination of "brilliance and idiocy." Gary Denton #1 on google for liberal news _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
