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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (33931)	7/8/2002 2:11:11 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

LB - here's a left wing summer night's dream for you Yeah, another article by Wallerstein "badmouthing" this country. John liked it, and posted the URL to it. I dismissed it after reading the lead in, and pissed him off. Those of us categorized as "right" here have to realize that a seminal event two years ago for those categorized here as "left" was Bush beating Gore. The left has never gotten over it and never will. That is understandable. I don't like either one, but if Gore was Pres, I would be more pissed than I am with Bush. To put it in a personal context, I tend to agree with and enjoy posting articles that are positive on what the Administration is doing, and John tends to agree with and enjoy posting articles that are critical of what the Administration is doing. That is natural. If the election had come out the other way, our positions would be reversed. What we both try to do is see each others point of view, and keep the "heat" out of it as much as possible.

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (33931)	7/8/2002 3:05:54 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Kind of funny. Reminds me of all those books telling us to act more like Japan, just before the Asian Tigers went down, or various declinist books urging accommodation with the Soviets just before they imploded. Mind numbing attachment to banalitites, followed by "overdetermined" conclusions. The analytical failure is up front, talking about the World Wars as bracketing a 30 year period of American- German rivalry, even though we waited until the very end to get involved with the first one, and might have avoided the second had not Japan attacked, or had Hitler proposed a peace plan consolidating his gains on the Continent. It is a truly dopey thesis, historically, and makes current projections seem even weaker than they might........