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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (446618)	8/22/2003 2:11:27 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"...to the unimaginable suffering the Bush administration is causing to AIDS-orphaned third world children by its birth control policies there is one example of this." huh?

To: E who wrote (446618)	8/22/2003 2:36:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

Quick first thoughts: The chilling casualness with which some conservatives on SI have responded to the unimaginable suffering the Bush administration is causing to AIDS-orphaned third world children by its birth control policies there is one example of this. I'm going to go with Jewel on this: Huh? Bush has put more money into Africa for AIDS. I'm sure you're aware of this. BUT the responsibility of the United States gov't is to citizens of the United States, NOT inhabitants of some cesspool in Africa. What you illustrate with that is the sort of left wing knee jerk reaction I had in mind. The extremes of conservative thought do seem to resemble Nietzsche's amor fati, ie an absolute embrace of the world as it is, no matter how dreadful it may at times be, and even when a particular horror could in fact be ameliorated by human effort. Want to talk about the extremes od left wing thought? Does Pol Pot come to mind? And I don't want to hear the "He's a right winger because I don't like him!" argument. That's the same stuff that comes out of the south end of a north bound bull and we all know it. Leftists are obviously more exercised by inequality per se. And good old Pol is a good example of where a fanatical pursuit of equality leads you. If you are going to have a capitalist system, you are going to have economic inequality. Get used to it. When the Founder's said "All men are created equal", they did NOT mean economically or in ability; they meant they should be equal in the sight of the law. against big spending. That's a joke! Point taken. Just because I think that critique of RW thought w/o one of LW thought was silly enough so that (for the fun of it) I produced one myself doesn't mean I buy the notion that conservatives have an intellectual basis for their thinking and leftists don't -- I've read this thread, Laz! I have yet to see a coherent exposition of American left wing thought. The best way of putting what I have seen is "AIN'T IT AWFUL!".