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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (45365)	5/6/2004 4:54:56 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 89467

A MUST READ!!! Thanks for posting it. Message 20101452 But the arrogance of virtuous certainty masks the egotism of power. It is the opposite of American pragmatism, which always under stands that knowledge is contingent, tentative and imperfect. This is a conflict in the American mind between two claims on democracy, one with a sense of paradox, limits and debate, the other purporting to be omniscient, even messianic, requiring no checks because of its purity, and contemptuous of accountability. "This is the only one where they took pictures," Tom Malinowski, Washington advocate of Human Rights Watch, and a former staff member of the National Security Council, told me. "This was not considered a debatable topic until people had to stare at the pictures."