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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (63898)	12/31/2002 1:47:49 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

DECEMBER 31, 2002 The Bush Administration revealed that it is preparing a comprehensive strategy of political and economic measures to pressure North Korea into backing down from its aggressive pursuit of additional nuclear weapons, though Secretary of State Colin Powell refused on television to characterize the situation as a "crisis." Administration officials privately admitted that it was difficult to explain why it is necessary to go to war with Iraq, where United Nations weapons inspectors have the run of the country, while counseling patience and diplomacy with North Korea, which has threatened "uncontrollable catastrophe" and "merciless punishment" for the United States and which just announced the expulsion of U.N. inspectors. The Bush Administration promised to give Japan a missile shield to protect it from a North Korean attack. Iraq shot down an American Predator drone, and allied jets bombed a command-and-control post near Tallil. "The evil criminals in the evil American administration and its humble servant Britain added a new crime to their black record against civilization and humanity and the houses of God," said the official Iraqi news agency. A coalition of Canadian peace groups announced that it will send weapons inspectors to the United States. harpers.org

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (63898)	12/31/2002 2:15:51 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

which amounts to saying that anyone who criticizes the notion that settlers deserve to be shot is demonizing his critics, is pretty far along the demonization scale itself. Hardly. Just bringing the value of dissent to the fore. So long as folk use this slippery slope logic of trying to brand disagreement and dissent as morally unacceptable, just so long is it in danger. Back to the editorial. We still don't know exactly what Stenhall said, what context he may have offered for those comments, or even if they were quoted accurately. And we should surely object when, even if they are accurately quoted from the appropriate context, they are then generalized beyond themselves. That's the slippery slope.