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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (21137)8/21/2004 10:12:37 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 23153
 
Kodiak, re: "Whenever a "liberal" accuses me or anyone of being a knee-jerk anything, I simply realize that he has given up trying to understand or reason anything and simply defaulted to an emotional and useless level of non-discourse.

After reading your post I have to congratulate you on your logical, well reasoned, dispassionate and non-partisan view of politics. I especially liked your incise summary of the Vietnam experience which, of course, you are not "caught in;" ie.:

"I'm not caught in the Vietnam experience, looping ever backward into the unfortunate war waged between LBJ's immense ego and pitifully small brain on the one side and the North Vietnamese and the elite east coast press on the other side.

I hadn't realized it was solely a "democratic" war and I sure didn't know that the "elite east coast press" and the North Vietnamese were allied.

(My point is that there seem to be a few absolutes and simplifications in your post. Maybe it's not that black and white, maybe Nixon carried on the same failed policies or had the same ego problems, maybe liberals have brains too and maybe you shouldn't tend to simply dismiss, as "emotional and useless level[s] of non-discourse," everything said by those whom you feel are "accusing" you of something?)
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