16-10-2018, 04:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-10-2018, 04:38 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
By "professional leftists", I was not referring to any particular historical figure.
I was talking about political commentators like Paul Street and Noam Chomsky. And I have written about both of them more than once and you can find what I wrote easily by doing a name search.
As per not looking back at the past with newly discovered information, I do not understand that at all. The more info one has the better since it helps one rebuild the past. For a long time, no one talked about NSAM 263 or NSAM 273. Or about Kennedy's withdrawal plan. It was not until the Pentagon Papers that we had any evidence of them. And then not until Newman's book that someone used them both in tandem. But yet they were both around back then in 1963-64.
Same with this info on Galbraith. David Halberstam completely mangled to the point of obfuscation what Galbraith was doing with and for Kennedy in 1961 and 1962, We had to wait decades to find out what was really going on. But now we do know what was happening back then.
I am all for having the most information we can get so we can be informed about the past in a complete way. The memoir and journalistic hacks like Halberstam simply do not cut it.
I was talking about political commentators like Paul Street and Noam Chomsky. And I have written about both of them more than once and you can find what I wrote easily by doing a name search.
As per not looking back at the past with newly discovered information, I do not understand that at all. The more info one has the better since it helps one rebuild the past. For a long time, no one talked about NSAM 263 or NSAM 273. Or about Kennedy's withdrawal plan. It was not until the Pentagon Papers that we had any evidence of them. And then not until Newman's book that someone used them both in tandem. But yet they were both around back then in 1963-64.
Same with this info on Galbraith. David Halberstam completely mangled to the point of obfuscation what Galbraith was doing with and for Kennedy in 1961 and 1962, We had to wait decades to find out what was really going on. But now we do know what was happening back then.
I am all for having the most information we can get so we can be informed about the past in a complete way. The memoir and journalistic hacks like Halberstam simply do not cut it.