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Title: Visionary? Fresh? Gasp, choke, gag, spit!
Review: Lind repeats most of the hackneyed justifications for the way things seem to have turned out, as espoused by everyone (on the right) from Sen. (Joe) McCarthy to Rush Limbaugh. OK, there is some abstract revisionism ("maximal realists" vs. "minimal realists") that I haven't run across. Not being a reader of Mr. Lind's magazine, I'm just not with it, I guess. At any rate, according to Lind, it (the Viet War, and apparently most or all of the others in this century) was (still) all the commies' fault, and they (and anybody else who might think of challenging US hegemony) better look out, 'cause we are- or should be--- ready to nail them good in the next quagmire! (like- the Zapatistas? is that why we're softening them up, sending all that military aid to the Mexican Army?) I think the whole subject is more complicated than Mr. Lind wants to even consider.
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