--- Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antiwar Crowd - Marching rarely does squat. > However, I have no > problem with Marxists in running some - the cold > war is over and I am > much more worried about the other wing. And the > anti-war movement was > right about every f***ing thing we said.
Really? The antiwar crowd that marched outside my office said, variously (judging by their signs, which appear to have been fairly typical judging by what I've seen of other protests): The Iraq war was a Jewish plot designed to secure Israel That it would cause hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq That Saddam would use WMDs on our troops That the US was fighting to control Iraqi oil You guys were right about all of that? Really? That's pretty astonishing. Incidentally, you also asked if I'm a Straussian (or, I believe, a neo-con). When the left uses Straussian they appear to mean conservative, and when they ask "neo-con" they usually seem to mean Jewish conservative. So, umm, I'm not a Straussian, although I did study with Harvey Mansfield and think he's the finest political philospher I've ever met or ever will meet. And I'm not a neo-con because I have, of course, always been a conservative. What exactly is it that you think about Strauss that suggests that being a Straussian is anything but a praiseworthy thing, btw? Or, for that matter, a neo-con? I do have some criticisms of the neo-cons - having switched from the Left to the Right their policy positions have improved but they still betray quite a few hints of their old truly astonishingly bad ideas. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
