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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Mr. Forthright who wrote (311221)10/26/2002 4:11:34 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I enjoyed reading the articles. I am surprised that anyone would characterize them far right opinions. Unless the meaning of right was opposed to wrong.

But summing it up...

Those who rule large populations through their version of religious doctrine and by killing their critics have excellent reasons for this loathing. America threatens every aspect of their existence, because America represents modernity in its most aggressive and developed form. America puts science above religion and puts free speech above both of them. Adapting democracy to culture, it organizes the mass media according to the tastes of the public -- a system that appals elites elsewhere in the world, particularly when the workers choose American rather than local culture. At the same time, America strives to live by pluralism, the conviction that people of different beliefs and races can live beside each other in peace, trade with each other, even learn from each other. In the effort to make this idea work Americans have often failed spectacularly, but they have persisted; and today their successes are vastly more important than their failures. That can only dismay those who believe in nations made up of populations that are ethnically and spiritually uniform.
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