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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (60175)12/6/2002 1:28:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
There is a difference between calling some of the radical Left "anti-American", which they openly invite with their "we had it coming" responses to 9/11, and calling all the Left "unpatriotic". There are conservative commentators, to be sure, who do the latter, though most mainstream conservatives are doing only the former.

But the Left makes it easy for those who would tar them all with one brush by not disassociating itself from the anti-American wing, or even admitting that this wing exists. Cries of "stop calling criticism of the administration unpatriotic!" are not going to gain the Democrats any votes that I can see, save among the choir, since there has been very little evidence of calling mere criticism unpatriotic. Who has impugned the patriotism of Senator Kennedy or Senator Byrd? Of course, it would help the Democrats more if they could figure out a foreign policy that they were actually for -g-
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