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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (32135)6/11/2002 4:27:47 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Yep, we do occupy very different political places. Though, I like the fact you read as widely as you do and as sympathetically as you do. And I think we both agree that one should not be so locked into political convictions that you can't learn from others with different ones or, even modify or change basic, core beliefs. My political views today are a rather far cry from my views in the late 60s.

On the New Jersey state police story on racial profiling, after reading Auletta's treatment of that I found myself agreeing with the final outcome. It's a local, metropolitan area story rather than a front page national/international one. So I don't quarrel with them on that placement.

One of my present concerns with the Times is that they have not pressed the civil liberties issues strongly enough. And that surprises me. I expected more adjectives that put the paper at a distance from the Ashcroft/Mueller strategy and more editorials that said the same in a louder voice.

It looks to me as if the Dept of Justice and FBI are playing the politics of it too much. Some playing goes with the turf. But Ashcroft, for instance, dialing in from Moscow, to make that announcement yesterday morning. Then it turns out what happened was the transfer to the DOD. Interesting reaction on the stock market--goes up with the announcement that the US had foiled a dirty bomb plot (makes sense) and back down with the realization that all that happened was the transfer.

Some interesting stuff in the today's New York Review of Books which I'll post later today (if it is online) including the last segment in the conversation between Barak and others over the Camp David-Taba business.
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