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JOHN_REED

                                             November 14, 2006
                                             December 10, 2006

An odd thought:

Compare Robert Fisk
to John Reed?

I have the impression that
Reed didn't get out enough.

I've skimmed through "Ten Days
that Shook the World": it looks              http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3076
an awful lot like he just hung
around in board rooms watching
meetings.

  The movie "Reds" has some
  striking footage of Warren
  Beatty strolling across
  a battlefield, manfully      I don't get the
  ignoring the exploding       sense that the
  shells on all sides.         actual John Reed
                               did a lot of that.


     I once heard a conservative
     argue that people like
     John Reed were being
     intentionally deceptive
     in downplaying the
     horrors of the new Soviet
     regime...

     Myself, I get the impression
     that they just didn't know
     about them.  You can be on         E.g. someone who lives
     the scene and still not be         in Washington DC will
     on the scene.                      not necessarily have
                                        any special insight
                                        into the Bush regime's
                                        motives.


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