Gordon, Mackler and the other former SWPers days spent pining away for the glory days of NPAC have come and gone. And slick behind the scenes efforts to sanitize language liberals find disconcerting should be left to MoveON.org.

Incidentally, Jerry pulled the same shit during the early Eighties at an Emergency Conference on Central America where he tried to derail a resolution condemning massive Israeli military assistance to the Guatemalan dictatorship of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt - a back door Reagan was eager to use after Congress cut aid because of human rights violations. Gordon was roundly defeated then as well.

Ain't democracy grand?