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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (60197)	12/6/2002 8:47:05 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

There is a difference between calling some of the radical Left "anti-American", which they openly invite with their "we had it coming" responses to 9/11, and calling all the Left "unpatriotic". There are conservative commentators, to be sure, who do the latter, though most mainstream conservatives are doing only the former. There is certainly a difference. But it is missed by most of the commentators from the right whose work gets posted here. Check the Harris piece Bill posted in recent days. I've now read it and will try to offer something about it later tonight or tomorrow. However, he regularly refers to some political entity called "the American left" and says that the "fundamental organizing principle of the left as it exists today," is that America is "wrong root and branch," "that America is an unmitigated evil, an irredeemable enormity." Those are direct quotes from the two paragraphs from that piece I quoted earlier. If one could say it anymore directly than that, I don't see how. As for the comment about the Dems lacking a foreign policy, it's the usual fate of the party out of power to lack one. Try to formulate the foreign policy of the Reps between 93 and 01. It's much like the Dems now, a series of criticisms. Then, when presidential election times come around, specific candidates propose specific platforms and we get all those speeches at wherever their favorite location which are meant to tell us precisely that.