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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (50620)10/9/2002 8:13:17 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
No, John, I'm not reaching, I have seen those signs with my own eyes!

Which underlines my point, Nadine. You offered a much larger generalization, one that attempted to make a claim for all peace protests.

I don't doubt you've seen signs. But the point those headlines wish to make is a different one, that those signs characterize the peace protests. And the reasoning behind that stretch is so apparent but familiar it hurts. It's been a very long term aim of the right to try to delegitimize in this fashion. McCarthy was hardly the first; and we are clearly entering a time, once again, when the right feels it has that opportunity.

. . . but are driving away some of the strongest Liberal Left voices, leaving the room to the lunatic Chomskyite fringe. It was not John Ashcroft who made Christopher Hitchens quit The Nation.

Hitchens can hardly be characterized as one of the "strongest Liberal Left voices." That he was an unusually gifted writer and with an interesting mind, cannot be denied. But the issue of the viability and vitality of the American left has been on the table for some time. Hitchens movement is not really an event in that history.

As for Ashcroft and Hitchens, I'll just pass that one by. I'm still a bit blurry eyed from a very long day yesterday and not enough sleep last night. Perhaps later; perhaps not.
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