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To: LindyBill who wrote (33932)	7/8/2002 2:20:13 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

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. Yep, that's right. But the Wallerstein is very serious, heavy weight stuff, not Molly Ivins. It's worth reading like any serious stuff is. It's parallel for me would be something like the Harvard philosopher, Robert Nozick, might be for you.

To: LindyBill who wrote (33932)	7/8/2002 11:14:03 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't consider myself a neocon right winger, but pieces like that Wallerstein article really irk me no end. It's one thing to desire that things that aren't quite right in the US be corrected, but it's another to write some "authoritative" wishful thinking about the country heading to third rate status in the world. Remaining a, or the, world power is in no way incompatible with making social or foreign policy improvements on our part, but it often seems as if these self-appointed experts take this incompatibility as an axiom. Nor, for example, is the desire to improve democracy in the Muslim States axiomatically for the singular goal of maintaining this dreaded American Hegemony. God forbid that it happens to also be to our benefit that these states move away from the shackles of their outmoded medieval theocracies and dictatorships.