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To: JohnM who wrote (46099)	9/22/2002 1:24:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In fact, it's quite possible to favor Kyoto on environmental grounds, the ICC on international law grounds, etc. without linking them. It's quite possible, but it's not what's been done many times on this very thread. Claiming that Den Beste made up this conflation out of his own head is preposterous and requires a major case of amnesia to boot. This betrays your political thinking -- as soon as someone argues effectively against a major line of argument coming from the leftist positions you're comfortable with, all of a sudden the leftist argument are not what we've been reading about in dozens of op-eds, but something else entirely, more rigorous and more nuanced; and the right-wing arguer is setting up a straw man, when he should be addressing only the high-quality scholarly arguments that you have just discovered and blessed. This is exactly the defense of multiculturalism you set up with Rorty; suddenly, it didn't count what anyone else had ever said about multiculuturalism, pro or con; only Rorty's arguments could be legitimately addressed.