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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (68378)3/9/2003 2:33:31 PM
From: Sam Citron  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
relative to the power we wielded, we have behaved more nobly that any other nation

Does great power then excuse great indiscretion? Must be a lemma to the principle that "Power corrupts."

That would be like arguing at the sentencing phase of a criminal conviction: "Your Honor, it is true that my client robbed the bank and killed the security guards. But please keep in mind that he is seven feet tall, weighs three hundred pounds, has fists like steel, and a huge arsenal. Surely these factors argue for a reduced sentence, if not a justification for his acts."

I think we should be judged by the totality of our actions both good and evil. A recent debate taken at Oxford University found that 43.6% of those polled supported the proposition that the US is the worst threat to world peace.
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If this is the determination of the world's educated elite, the prestige of the US has certainly fallen to new lows. Arundhati Roy argues forcefully that George Bush is a greater threat to world peace than Saddam Hussain. thenation.com

I appreciate the struggles of a second or third generation American to reexamine the sources of his patriotism during a difficult period of wrongheaded policy, but the rationalization that you have proposed has done nothing to soothe my wounded sense of pride in calling myself an American today.

Sam
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