Leaving the Left behind

[pegkerr]

From Arts and Letters Daily:

A continuously renewing society needs to foster innovative, versatile, and self-renewing men and women. For Keith Thompson that means leaving the Left behind...more...

Well? What do you think of his critique?

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

I think he's lying through his teeth.

Let's look at the rhetorical tricks. Sneer quotes around peace. Framing the opposing sides as for and against self-determination as opposed to for and against war. Hell, defining what's happening in Iraq as "self-determination" at all. Defining freedom as what George Bush wants.

But most of all, assigning bad motives and views to anonymous sources. "Leading voices in the peace movement". Who would that be? (Probably ANSWER, the standard bugbear in these situations.)

Yes, Virginia, this is a straw-man argument.