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To: LindyBill who wrote (75524)	2/19/2003 10:03:27 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

"I think we will look back on this year 20 years from now and have gratitude toward a gutty Texan who stood up to the world and did what was right. TWT. " I have reworded your post below to show the correlation between now and 1940. I have been "scratching my ass and thinking about the opposition," to paraphrase LBJ. I think it could be a Isolationism to some extent, a tendency to want to "look inward," as Europe has. Part of it is what Judt described on "Charlie Rose" last night as his "gut," no trust in the Roosevelt Administration. This is fueled by a partisan opposition on the part of some republicans, and a genuine professional dislike for the Internationalist at the helm in the FDR administration>. I think a large part of it is a genuine feeling of pacifism, that built up during the post WW1 era.......