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To: Sam who wrote (101671)	6/18/2003 12:22:33 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I heard Bill Kristol say in a radio interview (I think with Terri Gross on Fresh Air) something like, "Wouldn't it have been great if someone could have killed Hitler in the mid-30s, before WWII and the Holocaust even happened?" … He (and others in the Bush admin) think themselves uncorruptable, discerning judges of what the world needs politically, and don't think about the precedents they are setting. They only consider their own "good" intentions in exercising their judgements and the awesome power of the US military. Hard to argue with that observation. What often strikes me is the degree to which this philosophy is combined with an absolutely stunning disregard for the rest of the world. I can’t remember a set of leaders that knew or cared to know less of other places and people. Knowledge seems have become something actively suspect, and the opinion of anybody who has actually bothered to study the history and culture of a foreign place is often regarded as inherently questionable. What matters is moral clarity, according to whatever definition is convenient at the moment, and a close personal relationship with the Lord. The Lord that ordered us to smite unbelievers, of course, not the liberal fairy who talked about turning the other cheek. The combination of arrogance, ignorance, and unequalled military power is not reassuring.