“Deal With It, Pink Boy”
November 22nd, 2002 - 12:07 pm
I just read Alterman for the first time this week. Why did I bother?
I find all of this CIA post Cold War self-congratulation most tiresome. I don
I just read Alterman for the first time this week. Why did I bother?
I find all of this CIA post Cold War self-congratulation most tiresome. I don
Stephen,
A fairly avid reader of yours, I stopped reading Alterman a while ago. I am not averse to perusing points of view I disagree with, but Alterman has a surpassing capacity for pissing me off. He is implacably riveted to his dogmatic views and just a miserable fuck, to boot.
No, no, no, Stephen!!
First, there were NO winners, because, well, everybody was just plain exhausted and American capitalism and Soviet Communism killed off millions and millions and so everyone is sorided.
Second, the only winners were the Germans and the Japanese, because the two superpowers were exhausted.
Third, the world lost, because there is now unfettered American power w/ nothing to restrain it, and therefore America is running amuck.
Fourth, the world lost, because the vision of the brighter future where all share w/ all was vanquished beneath a smarmy, cheap McWorld and “elbow capitalism”.
Fifth, there was never REALLY a war to be won, only a misunderstood Soviet Union which, if we hadn’t done things like bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and establish NATO and undertake the Marshall Plan (and excluded the Soviets in the process), never would have had to be fought at all.
Sixth, the only real threat was our homegrown anti-Communist elements, made up of McCarthy-ite wackos, who raped America’s liberties and left us w/ the capitalist-run media that obscures and denies the real programs that American progressives have offered to the voting populace for the last fifty years, at least since Henry Wallace.
Don’t you see how we lost??
Oops, Dean — I forgot. How silly of me.
Thanks for reading, Aharon! Every time I think I’ve finally given up on Alterman, I think, “Maybe he’s cheery today.” And I always leave enraged and disappointed.
I believe that Alterman put scare quotes around “win” because, in his heart, he believes the United States would have been better off under the Soviet system.
The more I read nitwits like Alterman, the more they sound like Oswald. Yeah, that Oswald. The one who despised America, tried the Soviet Union and found it imperfect (how many leftists still believe that communism is workable, it just hasn’t been done correctly yet?), and would’ve moved to Cuba if they’d let him in.
Alterman’s a fool…the seven countries this week that are rubbing on NATO’s leg says it all…they aren’t looking east anymore.
Dean-
Are you off your meds? Please explain these millions and millions killed off by capitalism?
Gosh we are running amok with the sin of offering choices to the world. Thanks for opening my eyes how EVIL it is to give people choices in what to eat, drink, see and THINK.
Or are you just a parody of Idiotarianism?
Chill, Craig, he’s joking.
Reds
In email to my friend Billy Beck and the editorial board of the No Treason weblog, I said, “The Soviets are dead, but communism was never healthier”. Billy cites a counter-claim, one we both agree is foolish. The essay Reds is me making my case if not Billy’s:
This has broader implications than Communism, as I’ll be discussing on presenceofmind.net in the coming weeks.
Pink boy….heh!
That sounds an awful lot like triumphalism to me. Ted will be so disappointed — there goes your chance at getting a billion dollar donation from him.