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To: paul_philp who wrote (68570)	1/24/2003 9:22:30 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

I found that the post–September 11 sense that America is at war persists more strongly in Washington than anywhere else in America, including New York.[17] It persists, above all, in the heart of the Bush administration. The "war against terrorism" strengthened an existing tendency among the Republican elite to believe in what Robert Kaplan has called "Warrior Politics," with a strong seasoning of fundamentalist Christianity—something conspicuously absent in highly secularized Europe. I've been waiting for my copy of the NYReview to arrive before reading these articles, but just a quick comment on this particular paragraph, particularly the reference to Robert Kaplan. That might count as a favorable, or simply interpretive reference (would need to read the article to see the larger context), but Michael Lind, in his analysis of the culture out of which Bush comes and which provides the base of his electoral support says much the same thing in a decidely more negative analysis. I keep looking for the time to search out the articles I'm looking for. I have a biblio, with some links, just other things keep getting in the way of reading enough of them to start posting the relevant ones.