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To: Neocon who wrote (6949)	4/5/2002 9:47:45 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

You seem to be implying that there are few intelligent liberals.

To: Neocon who wrote (6949)	4/5/2002 10:50:52 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I thought it was rather a pretentious commentary. Certainly intended to be divisive. Most of the blurb seems to be a rather cloying and repetitious mantra of the values of Americanism. Your insinuation that these values are somehow the province of conservatism is both amusing and disturbing. If you were not being so vague, perhaps one could examine whether or not "conservatives" are truly the gatekeeper of these "values" as you are implying. What, for instance, is the point of this paragraph? What specifically do you mean here by "the West"? And what "fundamental ideas" are you referring to? What institutions incorporate within them these "mechanisms for criticism and improvement." "The Conservative looks with alarm at attacks on the fundamental values and practices of Western Civilization, and seeks to defend it, not only for its sake, but for the sake of the world, which must progress or die. Many things may change without harm; many things may even be an improvement; but no one should treat lightly the fundamental ideas, precepts, customs, attitudes, and institutions that have developed over millennia in the West, and which incorporate within them mechanisms for criticism and improvement that should be respected"