{"id":2842,"date":"2004-08-28T05:47:03","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/08\/najaf-to-new-york-better-new-york-to-najaf\/"},"modified":"2004-08-28T05:47:03","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T12:47:03","slug":"najaf-to-new-york-better-new-york-to-najaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/28\/najaf-to-new-york-better-new-york-to-najaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Najaf to New York? Better: New York to Najaf."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLefty columnist  <a href=\"http:\/\/marccooper.typepad.com\/marccooper\/2004\/08\/najaf_to_new_yo.html\">Marc Cooper is dismayed<\/a> by the Naomi Klein piece romanticizing Al Sadr in <em>The Nation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sadness. More sadness than anger is what overcame me when I read the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20040913&#038;s=klein\">Nation magazine column by Naomi Klein.<\/a> I?ll grant it has a catchy title: ?From Najaf to New York.? But this column by Klein, who has earned the admiration of a new generation of dissidents with a notable intellectual keen-ness, unwittingly reveals the <strong>moral confusion <\/strong>that clouds the vision, even the rationality, of much of <strong>the anti-war movement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you click the link above to read her entire piece and to make sure I do it justice in this critique. (Please also read <a href=\"http:\/\/normblog.typepad.com\/normblog\/2004\/08\/the_state_of_na.html\">Norman Geras? take <\/a>on this column as well). I had several friends call me in disbelief when they read Klein&#8217;s manifesto. I read it three times to make sure I got it right. <\/p>\n<p>And, alas, I can only conclude that the column is a <strong>forthright apology <\/strong>for the religio-fascist militias of Muqtada Al Sadr. Indeed, it?s damn near a call for the peace movement to join in solidarity with his Mahdi Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The loon who mentioned it in my comments should read this.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty columnist Marc Cooper is dismayed by the Naomi Klein piece romanticizing Al Sadr in The Nation: Sadness. More sadness than anger is what overcame me when I read the latest Nation magazine column by Naomi Klein. I?ll grant it has a catchy title: ?From Najaf to New York.? But this column by Klein, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/28\/najaf-to-new-york-better-new-york-to-najaf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Najaf to New York? Better: New York to Najaf.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-JQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}