Re: Juan Cole on Responsibility (was the Iraqi resistance at work)
On Nov 20, 2006, at 5:58 PM, mike larkin wrote:
I’d say that America is more a liberal plutocracy than a liberal democracy, but, still, it’s not a dictatorship, so we had better assume our shares of responsibility. Our refusal to assume them only contribute to the “it’s not our fault” meme, which goes hand in hand with the racist “it’s the Iraqis’ fault” meme, dominant in American
culture.
Yoshie
He’s wrong and you’re wrong. It’s not my fault. My hands are clean.
Yoshie’s politics have changed a lot in the decade I’ve known her,
but one thing hasn’t - she always has to position herself as more
militant and/or more righteous than thou, a model for all of us to
try (vainly) to emulate. Evidently she doesn’t find it exhausting to
radiate certainty and paragon-ness 24/7.
Doug