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To: JohnM who wrote (20681)	3/5/2002 11:46:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Direct link to Mills article: dissentmagazine.org

To: JohnM who wrote (20681)	3/5/2002 11:58:10 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It is quite different, and better, as tek says. well, not only me, I hope... Soon we won't be able to distinguish it from The New York Review of Books. we'll see. FA should generally be able to eat NYRB's lunch on foreign policy issues, and vice versa on cultural or broader intellectual stuff. Same with the New Yorker. It's a question of specialization, author stable, and in the latter case money (FA can only pay peanuts). Also, the new FA should be more accessible than the NYRB. As for Power's piece, I wasn't too impressed by it (nor the well-intentioned but oddly boring Dissent package). Why not? Because she started from the unworldly premise that genocide prevention was an important foreign policy priority, and was therefore shocked, shocked, to find out that it wasn't. The very fact of the pattern she establishes--officials never seem to do anything about the problem--should have been the starting point for analysis, not the conclusion. Still, I'm told by people I respect that the book is quite good. I gather that it will be reviewed in the next issue of FA, by a very sharp fellow; we'll see what he says about it. tb@nowthatyou'rehooked,subscribetogetyourfix.com

To: JohnM who wrote (20681)	3/6/2002 1:32:25 PM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Thank you, John, for the Nicolaus Mills essay. It is exceedingly important, in times when people dispassionately discuss the politics of war, with little weight given to the motherness and fatherness and childness which is in the folks whose lives are suspended in the unbalance, that we consider the moral necessities above the weighing of political feasibilities. When we forget that, we permit a part of the beast to penetrate our souls without resistance. More than once, I've found myself staring at my own aggressive words, thoughts and feelings post-9-11 and wondering "Now where the hell did that come from?" The essential unilateralism is the one we each possess, the one that should be screaming 'murderer!' at the Gujarat Hindus as vociferously as we do so with Al Qaeda. The only necessary ally is our conscience.