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To: Win Smith who wrote (123135)	1/15/2004 11:00:09 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

It may be convenient for war propaganda purposes to smear Al Qaeda, all of Islam, and all Arab governments together into one big "swamp" that the neocon true believers are going to magically clean up if we just sit back and let them, but the lumping together seems somewhat inconsistent with conventional reality. It's conventient and simple, which seems to be what the conservative base wants. Keep it to "good vs. evil" and put all the evil in the same box. I've lost any sense of what the neocon movement is; it's not coherent and certainly not consistent with any notion of a conservative. The conservatives have shifted in one huge motion from a movement that found it impractical to nation build in Haiti or Bosnia to plausible to reshape the middle East and the rest of the world. Neocon has just become another word without any specific meaning. jttmab