Re: Street-fighting Days
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 5/21/06, Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com > some people who are really no friends of the
values that have characterized the Western left.
Give yourself several years, and see where you stand on Ahmadinejad (supposing that he will survive the present and future conflicts in those intervening years). You, like many other US leftists, didn’t immediately think highly of Chavez, argue for the US withdrawal from Iraq, etc., but eventually you’ve come to argue for the positions that I have held all along.
Didn’t think highly of Chavez? I had his planning minister on the radio in 2002 for a very sympathetic interview - is that early enough for you?
What’s with this “immediately” business, anyway? Are we just supposed to embrace everyone who looks vaguely insurgent on first sight?
Doug