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To: goldsnow who wrote (12625)	3/14/2002 12:23:58 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Regarding your bizarre interpretation of the Syrian ambassador's reaction: <<< Such techniques of Straussian interpretation, discerning hidden agendas whatever actual texts may say, is a most useful device for the guardians of authority and propriety. These methods provide an automatic "proof" for virtually any desired conclusion. If the conclusion is unsupported by any textual evidence, or even directly refuted by the texts, that merely shows that the authors are even worse criminals, not merely pursuing their evil ways but attempting to conceal them by pretense and cunning. We must not be misled by the trickery of these sly dogs, readily unravelled by the mind of the commissar. By Lewy's logic, it would be child's play to demonstrate that he and his publishers are agents of the Third Reich, working to reverse its unfortunate defeat. >>> zmag.org This also applies to the standard Zionist charge that Arab peace proposals contain hidden agendas, a.k.a. Trojan Horses. By the way, Chomsky adds an interesting note to his discussion of the fascist Lewy's advocation of totalitarian state suppression: <<< Some of these subversives, Lewy continues, are virtual foreign agents. He quotes sociologist James Q. Wilson on the "maddeningly difficult" problem of determining which "dissident groups" fall into this category; when, for example, should it include someone "who travels to a foreign country to receive training, or who accepts foreign money to cover the expenses of his organization, or who secretly collaborates, without pay, with foreign powers in the pursuit of their policy objectives?" The tasks of the commissar are indeed daunting. One doubts, incidentally, that Lewy and Wilson have in mind the more obvious cases that fall within their paranoid constructions, American Zionists, for example. >>> Tom