Re: Debito says "I want my country back"!
Kevin Gowen wrote:
> tm wrote:
>
>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>>> I said "closest to." I didn't say that the Economist dictates my
>>>> politics.
>>>
>>> Very well, but I never said otherwise. It leans left, so you've not
>>> exactly blown my impressions of your politics out of the water.
>>
>> It? The Economist? Leans left? Interesting. What's a publication that
>> is centerist?
>
> One that doesn't wax nostaligic about the "courage and perseverance" in
> its obituary of Yasser Arafat
"...both dogged and indecisive, flaws of character and leadership,
corrupt coterie, vacillating and poor at administration, unwilling to
delegate, grew fat on other people's money, brutal tactics, contributed
to the Lebanese disaster, failed miserably, inability to make up his
mind, ambivalence, failing to respond, dithered, temporising, bad at
running things..."
You must have a different definition of what constitutes waxing
nostagically in someone's obituary. Listing "courage and perseverance" -
the two main positive qualities he had - hardly makes what is usually
considered a conservative magazine one that somehow "leans left".
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