It's funny. I write for different audiences. Yesterday I took a lot of flak on Daily Kos for slamming Obama too hard. So this time I did the opposite. There seems to be a huge universe of people who, as readers, only want to know if you are pro-US or anti-US, pro-Obama or anti-Obama. Then they will form their judgment.
So, to communicate with adherents of the one faith, you have to praise one god. To communicate with adherents of the other faith, you have to praise the other god. My objective here was to nail down the rapprochement with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a very positive development for the region, as I argued in the part of the piece that you probably didn't read. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:45 PM, j.martin.pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 04/02/11 22:21, Robert Naiman wrote: >> In which I review the remarkable developments of the last week on this >> front, explain their cause, and note the positive likely long-term >> implications of the US/MB rapprochement. > > This appears to be nothing less than a praise of the Euro-American > Empire, expressing a hope for its revival by spreading further the > cancer called democracy: > > "The Obama Administration and its State Department deserve high praise > for introducing this element of perestroika to U.S. policy in the Middle > East. Go USA!" > > Indeed, is this a revival of the BS "Hope and Change"? > > And - what does this actually mean (outside of elitist rhetoric): > > "a real transition to democracy"? > > Perhaps the last line should have read: "Go Shopping"........? > > -martin > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
