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To: JohnM who wrote (84613)	3/21/2003 1:21:45 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

John, You see very little here on either the right or the left that compares to Chomsky. A couple of bad articles once in awhile on either side, thats all. mike

To: JohnM who wrote (84613)	3/21/2003 1:27:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

don't post that parallel stuff here. I wish we had someone as influential on the right as Chomsky is on the left. No one, No one!, on the right has as much influence. We on the right don't keep up with him, it makes us gag to read his hatred of this country. But I have read that he is the 8th "Most Cited" writer in the world. I will post no more on him, no matter what the provocation.

To: JohnM who wrote (84613)	3/21/2003 1:51:03 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I watched Pollack on "Charlie Rose" last night. One thing he said hit home. Then I read David Frum's article this morning and found the same thing had struck him. Frum's context was the "two-faced" Political approach some of the Dems are taking to this war, especially Pelosi and Daschle. >>>>It's time to lay down some standards here. Many Democrats opposed the war with Iraq. That's their prerogative of course, and if the war ends badly it will equally be their prerogative to say "We told you so." But while the war is on, while American forces are engaged in combat, it is their duty to say nothing that might tend to embolden or sustain the enemy. I happened to catch Kenneth Pollack, author of The Threatening Storm on the Charlie Rose show last night. Pollack is no supporter of President Bush's. He is a very reluctant Iraq hawk, a veteran of the Clinton National Security Council who spent much of the 1990s opposing military action to overthrow Saddam. I don't know whether he is literally a Democrat or not, but his general outlook on the world appears to resemble that of Tom Daschle much more than that of George W. Bush. Yet here is what he had to say, based on my hasty notes. Saddam knows that his regular army cannot stop the United States. His plan is to retreat into Baghdad behind his best troops, to create what he hopes willl be, in Pollack's phrase "a Mesopotamian Stalingrad." Not that Saddam imagines that he can win this battle, but he does hope that if he can extend it long enough, the antiwar movements in the West will somehow force Bush to halt the campaign. In other words: the protesters are Saddam's best hope. Democratic pols should think hard about that before playing footsie with them.<<<< nationalreview.com