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But I remember deamonization of Col. Qaddhafi all the way back in the eighties when Reagan made his ridiculous claims about a team of Libyan hitmen dispatched to the US. Anywayone remember, what fond memories of Mr. Reagan and his extravegant statements, like his Evil Empire statement at the speech of Evangelicals in Orlando, my howmetown.--smile. Dan W. -----Original Message----- From: marxism-bounces+dcwein=dcwein.cnc....@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu [mailto:marxism-bounces+dcwein=dcwein.cnc....@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 3:18 PM To: Dan Weiner Subject: Re: [Marxism] Assad's backers on the left are ignoring reality ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== On 5/13/13 2:26 PM, Lester Schonbrun wrote: > I claim there is a similarity between reporting of events in Syria and > past reporting about Iraq, Panama, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Libya, etc.. > It seems to me that Assad is being singled out in the way Hussein, > Noriega, Ortega, Qaddafi, and Milosevic were. This is not true, at least with respect to Liyba. Until the Arab Spring, there was not much in the way of Qaddafi demonization. I wrote about this here: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/what-5-years-of-lexis-nexis-rev eals-about-libya-and-the-west/ This was typical: The Washington Post November 6, 2007 Tuesday Oil Wealth Fuels Gaddafi's Drive For Reinvention By Ellen Knickmeyer; Washington Post Foreign Service DATELINE: TRIPOLI, Libya Brother Leader Moammar Gaddafi still exhorts his people to greatness from billboards, banners and murals. But these days a different kind of command is driving Libya's transformation as the newly opened country taps into oil wealth: "izala," Arabic for "raze it to the ground." Surveyors are spraying the word in red paint up and down Libya's Mediterranean coast. The orange-vested road crews are tagging for demolition the old Libya - low-rise, stucco Libya, sleepy under decades of Gaddafi's socialist economy and international sanctions. To rise in its place, Gaddafi's officials say: the increasingly capitalist Libya, with new buildings for the country's new stock exchange. Airports to ferry in and out a dreamed-of annual flow of 30 million oil workers, tourists and other travelers. The world's second-largest port after Singapore. Railways. Highways. Hospitals. Schools. Luxury beachfront hotels. Libyans and Westerners here cite a statement attributed to Gaddafi: Libya must destroy in order to rebuild. "I can't believe they're going to do it," one white-haired shopkeeper said this past weekend at his snack shop on the coast road east of the capital, Tripoli. "Izala" was scrawled across the front of his sandstone shop, marking it for bulldozing to clear the way for a highway. (clip) I an understand why Lester has so little understanding of the press coverage on Libya before the Arab Spring or the hostility toward the Syrian opposition leader in Foreign Policy magazine. If your take on these issues is based on a steady diet of wsws.org, the PSL, Voltairenet, Global Research, MRZine et al, you would be left with no other conclusion. That, after all, is the purpose of propaganda. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/dcwein%40dcwein .cnc.net ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
