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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (61092)	12/11/2002 1:02:25 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

What if the Hunt for 'Evildoers' Aimed at Us? by Robert Scheer Columnist The Los Angeles Times Published on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 commondreams.org

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (61092)	12/11/2002 7:27:12 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine; Do you have any information on Condoleezza Rice's take on the Lewis/Huthcheson theory about a clash of civilizations? Thanks in advance

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (61092)	12/11/2002 10:41:26 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Some VERY interesting observations in that article, Nadine....for instance....Thanks for posting it! The Arab world does not have one full-fledged democracy among its 22 countries. More broadly, only 25 percent of the Muslim world is democratic, compared with well more than 50 percent of the rest of the world. But despite what Osama bin Laden and Pat Robertson say, there is nothing intrinsic about Islam or Arabs that means they must continue along this hopeless path. and============================>>> Condoleezza Rice comes to this issue not only as a foreign-policy expert. She has told friends a story of her first year in college at the University of Denver. A professor was teaching the theories of William Shockley, who argued that blacks were genetically less intelligent than whites. Rice, who was 16 at the time, stood up in his class and objected. “But there isn’t any evidence to the contrary,” the professor said. Rice responded, “Let me explain to you: I speak French; I play Bach. I’m better in your culture than you are. Obviously it can be taught. It doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not you are black.” This belief that anyone can aspire to anything is one of America’s greatest gifts to the world. And Condi Rice knows it not just in her head, but in her heart.