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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (6562)	4/2/2003 10:35:14 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

It's a fact of life that the extreme conservatives can't stand opinions other than their own. I think part of their problem is that recognizing the reasonableness of other views might shake their faith in their own narrow approach. It's a sort of denial. You can see it very clearly on this thread. Art

To: Doug R who wrote (6562)	4/2/2003 11:21:44 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 21614

"[T]he idea that we would go into any other nation, whether it's Canada or Mexico or Honduras or France or Iraq or China and say, 'We don't like your government; we think it's somehow threatening to our way of life, or our international interest; we therefore are going to topple a regime and either allow, in the chaos that follows, somebody to emerge as the new leadership, or we're going to install a pro-American leadership. . .', that idea would be absolutely appalling to Thomas Jefferson," humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson asserts. not to mention incredibly unwise, given the precedent it sets...