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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (60023)12/5/2002 3:01:42 PM
From: paul_philp  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

If folk which to post articles which try to pin the tail of anti-Americanism on anyone who criticizes Bush, present US policy, whatever, then I intend to call them on it


Certainly. It is dangerous and arrogant to accuse someone who disagrees with the government unAmerican or unpatriotic. On the otherside of the fence, there is a regular accusation that Bush et. al. and those who support them are 'betraying the constitution'. This is equally unhelpful.


Bill Clinton observed in his speech to the DLC within the past several days that one of the differences between the Dems and the Reps was that the Reps had a destruction machine.


One of my little life pleasures these days is sitting back and watch the American parties accuse each other of being political parties. I can see no difference in terms of meanness in campaigning and politicizing the agenda between the two parties. It is a winner take all system and decisions are made polically by design. Many people from both parties indulge the fantasy that their s--t doesn't stink. It amuses.


political discourse becomes a game of who can paint the other as unpatriotic.


That is a two-way game as well. Look at the press John "Orwell" Ashcroft gets.

As I suggested to Ken, the topic of how America is view is critical. How Americans view America is equally critical if they are going to attempt to enroll parts of the world into a some form of the 'American System'.

Paul
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