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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (98658)5/20/2003 1:54:11 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
As an expert in recognizing generalities, perhaps you recognized this one:

Finally, Lewis manages the most despicable calumny of all: the equation of the Arab world with the Nazi movement. He begins his extended discussion of this topic thus: “The Nazi version of German ideologies was influential in nationalist circles, notably among the founders and followers of the Ba’th Party in Syria and Iraq.” With this characterization in hand, what better reason could there be for the United States to invade this “axis of evil?”

Straight from Beeman's pen.

Let's deconstruct this bit of folderol.

Lewis equates "the Arab world" with Nazism. Hmm....I don't think the text supports the argument.

Lewis' actual text: “The Nazi version of German ideologies was influential in nationalist circles, notably among the founders and followers of the Ba’th Party in Syria and Iraq.”

Historically, Lewis is 100% correct. How in Heaven's name can one go from the documented Nazi influence on the Ba'ath parties in the 1950s to equating the entire Arab world with Nazism to a justification for the "axis of evil" for the benefit of neocons without even a short rest stop to catch one's intellectual breath is beyond me.

I don't know the Lewis' texts which are the basis for Beeman's claims. And see no need to find them.

Ignorance is such bliss, isn't it, especially when writing extended diatribes on writings you won't even bother to read.

C'mon, John, you can do better than that.
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