Well, the imperial ones, anyway — Murray Polner, my co-editor on We Who Dared To Say No to War (Basic Books, 2008), likes me all right. The summary of my career, which focuses on events from 16 years ago, is pretty funny; I guess they missed the bio at my website. But funniest of all is that they say my Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is “so extreme” that even Max Boot doesn’t like it!
This is all you need to know about this brand of progressive. They prefer Max Boot, who according to Juan Cole “never saw a war he didn’t love, never saw a conquest he didn’t find exhilarating, never saw an occupied land he didn’t think could be handled.” They approvingly quote Boot’s dumb-guy propaganda line that “Woods’ sympathy extends not only to slave-owning rebels but also to German militarists” (because, like 99% of people who have studied the matter, I think Woodrow Wilson’s conduct during the early years of World War I was based on a double standard between Britain and Germany). This is the same sense in which Ron Paul “sympathizes” with al-Qaeda because he doesn’t buy U.S. war propaganda. These are just super progressives.
How about this: we all concede I am the worst person who ever lived. Now can we address the merits of my arguments? I’d love to hear one of these people try to refute the speech I gave at CPAC. That will never happen. Commie agitprop is more fun.
11:09 am on February 20, 2010
