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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (24964)4/13/2002 3:20:48 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I would be sorry to see you join their company.

Ah, here we go again, Nadine. You're looking for some less than morally acceptable category and then you'll push me in. And, as usual, I find that debate tactic objectionable. So what else is new?

As for Falk's article, I think it's quite good, not written from the viewpoint of the morally deficient at all. Rather, Falk is one of our better international moralists right now. I find some of his stuff more than a little abstract, sometimes much too idealistic, but almost always worth reading and thinking about. If you wish to be close minded about this, please be my guest.

The major strength of the article is to place things in a different context than the one much of American journalism is doing right now; to disconnect the Al-Qaida terrorism metaphor from the conflicts between state groups and between dominate and subordinate groups.

If you wish to go back and argue that there is a strong moral difference because the Palestinians attack civilians, we can go back to arguments you made yourself as to the character of modern war when I invoked Dresden and Hiroshima/Nagasaki. I'm not interested in reworking that debate but you did change sides here.

Good talking to you,

John
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