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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (56316)3/26/2008 8:26:55 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 543578
 
you bring up an interesting point- but this point is elminated if one looks at the novel and somewhat bizarre idea of "preemption"- if we discard the unhealthy idea of "preempting" things, we are no longer in danger of attacking phantoms. Pretty neat solution, isn't it?

I can understand why you'd like to defend Bush's belief in the bluff- that's a hard thing to get around; you have to start saying things like "Well if we believe it was real than it's real"- which sounds an awful lot like the Velveteen Rabbit- nice book, lousy foreign policy.
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