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To: Neocon who wrote (122102)	12/26/2003 3:08:08 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Vargas Llosa can nuance himself up a storm until the end of time, and still never escape the fact that it was not Hussein who crossed the sea and made an unilateral pre-emptive invasion of another sovereign nation, it was Dubya, it is not iraquis ba'athists concentrating total military power of world domination in their greedy hands, it is estadounidense/israeli neocons That being said, VLl is a good man generally, with the huevos to stand up and state what is unpopular ... an example from early this month - listas.rcp.net.pe .... overall theme being, he points out the pitfalls of the sort of ranting populism used by the Castros and Chavezes ... last line there translates as, "'I am a liberal who mistrusts power', he said a few days later in México." .... well that is the only way for the conscious to view power, imho, however he does not seem to get quoted recently on the overwhelming concentration of power in Washington DC, an oversight of editors perhaps eh VLl is in the piece you translate speaking to the french, who also need a wake-up call from time to time .... i suspect that were he talking to you and Nadine, he might likely raise issues you would find rather less than comfort-making to your neoconicity The classic dispute involving Vargas Llosa is with García Márquez, whose biography he wrote in the sixties [by which VLl became known] .... GGM was his hero, yet he sided with Octavio Paz and others of conscience when it came time to note Castro's abuse of his power over cubanos ..... here are two letters to Fidel Castro, you will see VLl's signature present on both, and GM's absent from the second - nybooks.com nybooks.com We must fight trends of concentration of power in few hands, be they the hands of Hussein or Castro or Hitler or Dubya, it is our responsibility to put upon them checks and balances .... just how we do that in each specific case, is the thing .... i think you're missing the man's point if you think him willing to hand over the Rest of Us rechtlos to permanent and absolute neocon rule