did Landy launch letters lambasting Israel's nukes?
On 5/13/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Louis Proyect wrote:
>In the latest attempt by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (a wholly
>owned subsidiary of the left-Shachtmanite New Politics magazine) to put a
>halo over its head, executive director Joanne Landy is gathering signatures
>for a petition that carves out a "third way" between the USA and Iran.
>Since the 1940s, this current has always adopted a sort of *moralistic*
>concept of politics in which one of the primary goals has always been to
>curry favor with middle-class opinion. It is inspired by the anti-Soviet
>open letters that people like Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler and Dwight
>MacDonald used to circulate in the 1950s.
Joanne asked me to sign that but I told her I couldn't, because I
said I thought that Iran was perfectly justified in trying to develop
nuclear weapons - and, in fact, every country should have at least
one nuclear bomb. I'm certainly no fan of the Iranian regime, but I
don't see what effect a petition signed by a bunch of metropolitan
intellectuals would have on it.
Doug
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