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Poor analogy and as meaningless as the argument that the US client regime is all fascist. On Feb 7, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > On 2/7/15 2:23 PM, Ron J wrote: >> But this is about a lot more than the concerns of the average Ukrainian. >> Those concerns merely make it easier for the US supported government to >> manipulate Ukrainians to war. > > Funny thing here. > > Kim Scipes wrote about this stuff a few days ago > (http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/06/us-ukraine-and-russia-what-went-wrong), > giving his nod to John Mearsheimer, the U. of Chicago "realist": > > ->Mearsheimer labeled Russia’s response "highly understandable." Russia made > clear this situation was "categorically unacceptable." He said that if we > wanted a good analogy, we should look at the US response to the Soviet > Union’s placement of missiles in Cuba in 1962 or even the Monroe Doctrine > itself, which he described as telling other world powers to stay out of "our > neighborhood," the entire Western Hemisphere.<- > > That this appalling analogy has so much traction with the left makes me all > the more committed to my stand on Ukraine. Think about it. Mearsheimer says > that Russia has just as much right to control what happens on its borders or > nearby as the USA had in Cuba. What kind of left can read this horseshit and > pat itself on the back that an establishment figure has come over to "our > side". In reality, it is the left that has gone over to his side and don't > you ever forget it. > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
