DISAGREEMENT IS NOT SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT - 2

Scott Lucas writes:

I read your review with much amusement, but I hope, on a re-reading of the book, that you might finally recognise the picture I have painted. I've never argued that the "left" has been silenced; rather, I suggest that Aaronovitch, Cohen, Hari, Hitchens and many other writers and broadcasters in the US and UK have avoided a discussion of the complex arguments over "liberal intervention" and US and British foreign policy by misrepresenting/caricaturing a "left" which is supposedly an appeaser of "Islamic fascism". It is to the credit of many persistent writers, many of whom are not "left", that these arguments continue to be put eloquently and, hopefully, to some effect.