On 8/7/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/7/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So is the pie-in-the-sky fantasy of most US leftists, who are always
> in search of "good guys," so they are incapable of defending what must
> be defended (in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, etc.) and unable to
> see the faults of those whom they put on the pedestal (in Cuba,
> Venezuela, etc.).
shouldn't Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc. _also_ be defended, while we
should avoid putting _anyone_, including those from Iran, Lebanon,
Palestine, Syria, on a pedestal?
Yes, that goes without saying, but the tendency in the left is the
other way around.
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