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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (60819)	12/10/2002 12:06:28 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>I think liberals today put an emphasis on purity of motives and consistency of action, particularly in foreign policy, that makes them damn-near blind to reason.<< I used to have a quote on my refrigerator to the point that some people have so fine a conscience that it does not permit them to accomplish anything useful in life. Can't find the quote nor remember the author.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (60819)	12/10/2002 8:02:10 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Now I think Jonah Goldberg is onto something. Nope, what you have is (a) the eternal blame-the-left syndrome of folk like Goldberg and his ilk, as if nothing else was going on in the world (thank heavens for columnists like Novak and Safire who actually write about policy and politics); (b) more than a little truth stretching--that something called the left cheered the Somalia and Haiti exercises (the former was an action of the first Bush administration, by the way), rather than invoke Bosnia; and (c) one British writer, I gather he is a Brit, who fits the model. That latter is a bit like looking at a large data field in which the dots sprawl all over, no pattern, no mathematical model fits. Ah, but never fear. If you simply look at the data points that fit and erase the ones that don't. Well. Just willy-nilly "left" bashing. No redeeming social value.