Leo has not been here for a while. All that personal stuff does not
belong here.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:01:38AM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> Didn't I send that Wolin rant last night to the list?
> Just to show y'all that Leo can make distinctions, too.He can hate
> Chomsky but, see that the Hitch is closer to his p.o.v.
> Michael Pugliese
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:41 AM
> Subject: [PEN-L:17556] Re: Fw: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
>
>
> > apropos of what?
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:15:34AM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:07 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
> > >
> > >
> > > There must be two Christopher Hitchens, since Wolin is responding to an
> article that is almost, point for point, the opposite of the "Against
> Rationalization" one I read.
> > >
> > > << There is something especially sinister about the article you
> > > forwarded to me. By focusing on the purportedly profound question of
> "why" Tuesday's events came to pass instead of the question of "how" (as if
> this "why" is a mystery to all but the "enlightened" Christopher Hitchens),
> Hitchens suggests, via insinuation and innuendo, that in essence the United
> States brought this attack upon itself. This is the clear thrust of
> Hitchens's essay. But, in cowardly fashion, he refuses to state his thesis
> directly, for fear, no doubt, of having to take responsibility for its
> implications.
> > >
> > > In the recent Guardian article and elsewhere, Hitchens insinuates that
> this "why" is a relatively simple matter: the US is supporting a "racist"
> Israeli government that has brought untold and undeserved woe upon the
> innocently suffering peoples of the Middle East - the Palestinians in
> particular. But in making such claims, Hitchens makes things too easy for
> himself. Here, too, I'm afraid Hitchens needs another history lesson - a
> field that's obviously not his strong point. >>
> > >
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> > > Power concedes nothing without a demand.
> > > It never has, and it never will.
> > > If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
> > > Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men
> who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder
> and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
> > >
> > > -- Frederick Douglass --
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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