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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CLEMSON.BITNET!DGPAZ
  3. Message-ID: <HISTORY%92121219555824@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
  5. Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:54:00 EST
  6. Sender:       History <HISTORY@PSUVM.BITNET>
  7. From:         DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET
  8. Subject:      Re: The Spanish/American War
  9. Lines: 26
  10.  
  11. On Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:01:00 CST RICHARD JENSEN <CAMPBELLD@APSU.BITNET>
  12. said:
  13.  
  14. >     Since the days of Walter Millis (1931) a standard
  15. >     leftist view of the war, which is widely accepted by textbooks,
  16. >     airbrushes humanitarianism away and assumes instead that
  17. >     economic "interest" causes diplomatic/political action.
  18.  
  19. "airbrushes"? "assumes"? "leftist"?
  20. Evidently, to argue that economic
  21. causes operate in determining
  22. foreign policy is, in Richard
  23. Jensen's view, to airbrush,
  24. to assume, and to be leftist.
  25. The first two, to airbrush (i.e.,
  26. to suppress evidence that goes
  27. against one's views) and to
  28. assume (i.e., to prejudge), are
  29. bad history. The last, one's
  30. political views, is irrelevant,
  31. so long as one's history is good.
  32.  
  33. Denis Paz
  34. Department of History
  35. Clemson University
  36. South Carolina, U.S.A.
  37.