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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (17674)2/11/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Well, I'll only touch lightly on one theme. The clouds scudding across this thread this week are draining my Danny de Vito gland (the one that makes emphatic discussion fun).
I don't know how you can feel that Islamic extremism might sometimes seem like a good idea. It's a form of state (like Maoism or what's going on in North Korea) which rejects pluralism as "subversion". It's today's bastion of the totalitarian ideology, with the weight of scripture behind its society-rearranging power. In this way it's profoundly anti-socialist, since in the sort of socialism the world's intellectuals seem to regard as moths do a flame, free speech is a cornerstone.
Saddam is a despot. Despots are transitory. When he goes, whether by Maverick or curved dagger (or just falling off his toilet from an overdose in the grandest Western tradition), I'll lay money that the replacement will draw public support for a return to basic moral values. Like Germany in the early Thirties. Nobody wins, except Iraq's patient neighbor to the East.
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