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**egb_hibs** · 13-04-07, 16:43

Nick Cohen's "What's Left" contains some interesting stuff on wolfowitz. There's an anecdote about some Iranian feminist writer dedicating her book 'To Paul' and Cohen's reflections on finding out that this was wolfowitz. the point was that - according to cohen - he was the guy admired by the oppressed liberals in places like that, rather than those who would claim to be liberals over here, but who gave nothing in terms of solidarity. a bit like the betrayal the intellectuals of the eastern bloc used to feel etc. of course this was before the neo-cons got tarnished with the iraq mess.

also contains stuff which suggests that wolfowitz is genuinely sincere with all this spreading democracy business, and has never recovered from the 'betrayal' of the shia uprising in gulf war I - but then that will only be a revelation to those who refuse to credit america with any other than solely nefarious aims.

as cohen points out, a fair bit of the flak that PW gets is no doubt down to what is euphemistically termed, ahem, 'anti zionism'

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egb_hibs Khmer Radge Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: From the Capital Posts: 20,661 vCash: 500 My Mood: Thanks: 1 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts Rep Power: 30	Re: Wolfowitz feels the heat Nick Cohen's "What's Left" contains some interesting stuff on wolfowitz. There's an anecdote about some Iranian feminist writer dedicating her book 'To Paul' and Cohen's reflections on finding out that this was wolfowitz. the point was that - according to cohen - he was the guy admired by the oppressed liberals in places like that, rather than those who would claim to be liberals over here, but who gave nothing in terms of solidarity. a bit like the betrayal the intellectuals of the eastern bloc used to feel etc. of course this was before the neo-cons got tarnished with the iraq mess. also contains stuff which suggests that wolfowitz is genuinely sincere with all this spreading democracy business, and has never recovered from the 'betrayal' of the shia uprising in gulf war I - but then that will only be a revelation to those who refuse to credit america with any other than solely nefarious aims. as cohen points out, a fair bit of the flak that PW gets is no doubt down to what is euphemistically termed, ahem, 'anti zionism' __________________ "All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death."