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To: carranza2 who wrote (8065)9/15/2003 11:04:27 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 793817
 
c2, I read the article. Buruma starts off with a fair analysis of Vidal and other individuals. It's when we get these wild leaps to "the left", that we should know we are in the presence of some other kind of argument. Not necessarily wrong but requiring a rather different kind of evidence structure. Certainly Vidal hardly equals "the left."

It then turns out that Buruma actually has in mind the classic colonial mentallity. I was disappointed because I've read some of his stuff and found it quite interesting. This one was not.

As for Nadine posting only that paragraph about "the left," it was fair to call that the "usual nonsense."
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