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To: Lane3 who wrote (98950)	2/6/2005 3:50:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793727

I hold Bush primarily accountable because the responsibility and the stature were his So they were, but the responsibility of protecting the country came before holding the hands of the Democrats, who in the event had no well-formed alternative ideas about how to respond. Thus the vacuum was filled with "ask yourselves why do they hate us?" bleating from the far left, which simply infuriated everyone from the center-right to the far right. The main reason that neocon thinking found prominence post 9/11 was that the neocons were the only ones predicting Islamic terrorism as a threat, thus only they had prescriptions ready for action. Those on the Left who had dismissed the terrorist threat as over-hyped were simply cowed after 9/11. They could have looked for common ground with the neocons, but the pre-existing polarization of anything to do with Middle East Studies prevented that, imo. Those who had lionized Edward Said's "orientalist" arguments could not make the switch to admitting that Bernard Lewis had gotten a few things right about the nature of modern Arab regims and Islamicism.

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