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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (208861)	6/18/2007 3:29:55 PM
From: skinowski	of 793921

Nobody else can act. Listen, and you will hear this as a common theme. America acts, everybody else merely reacts, and very understandably and excusably too. Nobody else can act. Nobody else can take moral responsibility either. So we have moral perversions that blame America more for not stopping the genocide in the Sudan than blame the Sudanese government for committing it in the first place ... ...Displacement is the neurotic response that moves a fear from its proper target to some other less threatening and more controllable target I was wondering about this phenomenon some time ago. Tried to label it "Americacentrism", but I think it didn't stick. The notion of a "less threatening and more controllable target" could be key here. Those individuals are playing the system (our system) because it is safe to do so. They know that no matter what they will not disappear one night. They couldn't quite go and screw with Dr. Assad or with Sudanese tough guys, could they....

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