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To: JohnM who wrote (38266)	8/16/2002 11:54:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

I'm not arguing for K. Definitely not. Just that this public split in the inner circles of the Republican heavy hitters is fascinating and, at least for the moment, suggests Powell has found a way in the back door to argue his points. Assuming these are his. I agree with you there. But I don't hear K. pulling the old trick of saying, I'm all for it, but have you considered the costs? and then piling the costs sky-high. The 'for it' bit that I quoted was quite forceful, I thought, hardly the 'it would be nice to have, but' of Scowcroft's column, and the costs mentioned are very doable. I think K's for it, and knows (as does everybody) that the first essential towards doing it is making it absolutely clear to friend and foe alike that we mean business.

To: JohnM who wrote (38266)	8/17/2002 8:16:28 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Interesting Book Review, From "TLS". It ties in with the "Noble Savage" concept, and is allied with "Multiculturalism." Dreamers of paradise Raymond Tallis 8/14/02 The failures of cultural relativism Roger Sandall THE CULTURE CULT Designer tribalism and other essays >>> Roger Sandall's brilliant, impassioned and sardonic The Culture Cult explains among other things how the phrase "in our culture" has come to be used to defend behaviour that would otherwise be seen as quite abhorrent. Until recently Sandall was a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. His career coincided with the high tide of an intellectual fashion which held three dogmas to be unquestionable. In his words: 1. each culture is a semi-sacred creation, 2. all cultures are equally valuable and must never be compared, and 3. the assimilation of cultures (especially the assimilation of primitive culture by a secular civilization coldly indifferent to spiritual things) is supremely wicked. For adherents of what Sandall calls the culture cult, primitive culture is not inferior to modern civilization, it is different and quite likely better<<<< the-tls.co.uk