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To: Ilaine who wrote (46170)	9/22/2002 2:37:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Thank God we don't have to rely on academics to protect us from the bad guys in the real world. Edit: that's not exactly true, is it? People like Wolfowitz and Rice are really members of the same species as academics, only they have crossed the line between being able to speculate idly without any serious consequences. Their voices are the ones that are being heard now, and they don't agree with you. As you know, CB, and probably know well, so far as active politics is concerned, academics and ex-academics are all over the lot. Check out Paul Wellstone and Dick Armey, etc. The Council of Foreign Relations folk tend to go back and forth between academia, think tanks, and active policy engagement. The same path now pursued by Rice and Wolfowitz. I don't think you are troubled by academics, you are troubled by folk who consider one of the requirements of a democracy is to persuade the public with argument and evidence. Particularly in the most crucial decisions of all, the decision to go to war. The Bush folk have not only not done it, they are saying they don't need to do it. Hope the 3D worked, whatever that was. You failed me, however. I had to drag the vacuum cleaner and do my work.