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To: LindyBill who wrote (16928)	11/20/2003 7:42:10 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793690

Now I know David Frum is his mother's son. She was kinda lefty but she would have done exactly the same thing: Good point. But not as good a point as this one I heard from a young member of the Socialist Workers Party, standing underneath a clutch of red banners. I goaded him a little: "Wouldn't Trotsky describe your allies in this coalition as religious obscurantists? And isn't the history of the Middle East that religious loyalties count for a whole lot more than ideology?" Mike (the name he gave) shrugged me off. "People in the Middle East are fighting because their own governments are repressing them. They come to feel that they have no alternative - and the mosque is always open. "But I can't help thinking that it's just not very realistic that people are going to kill each other because they say my God is better than your God. Give people freedom and an opportunity for something better: that's what they really want." I said: "You know, you sound exactly like Paul Wolfowitz." He flinched. Beautiful. When she was on form Barbara Frum was the best interviewer I've ever heard.