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To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (201)	9/30/2001 3:06:50 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Respond to of 15516

From today's NYT... nytimes.com Comments? PS to Mephisto: Your name/mission statement for this thread is GREAT! I love it! bia

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (201)	9/30/2001 3:24:24 PM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

I draw your attention to the following from that article. "To disagree with this assessment would require us to throw out the very standards by which we judge our own society's shortcomings. For example, you can't say (as Jesse Jackson does all of the time) that the United States is racist or authoritarian or a police-state, and hold that Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, et al., aren't far worse, without being intellectually dishonest. You can't say that it's a crime that America "lets" so many of its people live in poverty, and then think that Saddam Hussein, with his dozens of palaces, is in some way a more enlightened leader. The same holds even for our "allies" Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. " TP and others like him hold Western civilization to a standard that they would never hold other cultures to. Now in some ways its good to hold our culture to the highest standard and as the civil rights movement did move it forwards. However after achieving civil rights and after the gain of the women's movement to then say that all other cultures are our equal is ludicrous. The truth is that TP Jesse Jackson and others who constantly hate Western culture would never dare leave its shelter of personal freedom. Apparently the terrorist assault has woken up the masses as 90 % agree with this assessment. I guess TP is one of the 10 %.