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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (38979)11/27/2001 1:20:49 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Just read something that relates to your earlier discussion of what it means to be patriotic. There is an excellent article in the December Vanity Fair by Christopher Hitchens titled For Patriot Dreams. Unfortunately, Vanity Fair doesn't post its articles on the web. I'll tax my limited typing skills:

"....I have found the patch of soil on which I will take my own stand, and the people with whom I'll stand, and it's the only place in history where patriotism can be divorced from its evil twins of chauvinism and xenophobia. Patriotism is not local: it's universal. (No, finally - and what a relief! - all together now: All politics are not local.) I checked carefully every day with my friend Hussein Ibish, a Lebanese Kurd who speaks for the American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, and who had a lot of monitoring to do. There were not all that many nuts and dolts that week who were so shameless and idiotic as to bully or insult a Sikh or a Sri Lankan. But of the incidents of vandalism and barbarity reported and recorded, barely a one took place in the epicenter of Manhattan. If patriotism can be democratic and internationalist - and this remains to be fought for - then that's good enough for me; perhaps there's a better chance now than anyone could have envisioned. In this microcosm, there was the code for a macrocosm. Call it a rooted cosmopolitanism...."

This typing is getting tedious, I better stop now. There is more in the piece that is just terrific.
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