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To: LindyBill who wrote (51240)	10/11/2002 3:49:07 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

He has been traveling the world since 911 saying that it was caused by our "Globalization" What's wrong with this assertion? It's consistent with the argument that Al Qaeda is fighting modernity. They wouldn't care about modernity if it were not globalized into their own backyards. and that 911 was not as bad as Clinton bombing the Sudan. I wouldn't go that far, but Clinton bombing the Sudan aspirin factory was a cynical bid to deflect attention from the Monica scandal (aka "wag the dog"). The President of the US should be held to a higher standard than a bunch of terrorists.

To: LindyBill who wrote (51240)	10/12/2002 12:13:50 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If we are going to have a list of people we don't post here. I think Chomsky should head the list Should always post some lunatic fringe stuff in extremely unlikely case they turn out to be right. I regard Chomsky as lunatic fringe because he runs everything rigorously through the same lens. He's formidable when he does so because he's so utterly thorough. But his lens is socialist and it inhibits his descriptive powers and he makes remarkably bad descriptions and so he gets led astray and makes remarkably wrong predictions. That's what I think - but what if I've made some fundamental errors in my descriptions I can't recognize, (eg. US is the greatest exemplar of modernity; socialism embodies an archaic longing for a utopian universe, yada yada)? Perhaps something he writes might demonstrate how erroneous my description is. I think both Ayn Rand and Chomsky are fruitbats but if folk want to post some pertinent stuff they write that's OK by me. I just don't want to wade through a zillion posts of the stuff, that's all.