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To: briskit who wrote (97958)	5/12/2003 8:50:23 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

VIEW FROM THE LEFT This was a good piece, mike. I almost published it myself on my thread. But you gave the impression it was copied from Totten's blog. Actually, it was not published in his blog, it was published today in "Wall Street Journal.com" You left that out, and did not "link" it. Here is the link.http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003467

To: briskit who wrote (97958)	5/12/2003 12:06:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Good post, I think there's a good deal of truth in this: Defenders, unlike builders, are on the lookout for threats. This is what conservatism is for. In the absence of civil war or revolution, threats exist abroad. Canada isn't a problem, and Mexico isn't really either. The biggest threats are on the other side of the world. Conservatives write about China and Iran not because they're into Taoism or because they swooned at the Persian film festival. The interest is there because these countries are dangerous. Conservatives are more likely to study prewar Nazi Germany because they're watching out for a repeat. The right side of the blogosphere laughed uproariously when antiwar protesters carried placards that said "Peace in Our Time." The left just didn't get the reference. It's not that the left is stupid. Rather, because liberals are builders not defenders, liberal intellectuals focus on internal problems rather than threats from outside.