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To: frankw1900 who wrote (46263)	5/22/2004 4:07:15 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793990

It's no dilemma at all if the enemies' aims are kept clearly in view. This can't be done if the "view" belongs to a media that wants a different "view" framed. We live in a "PoMo" world, Frank. The world wide media has convinced the world that we are the villains. That is why you see the polls they way they are. They haven't totally convinced the American Public, but they have made inroads. And we don't have a "Tony Blair" at the helm with the speaking ability to turn it around.

To: frankw1900 who wrote (46263)	5/22/2004 12:45:41 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793990

The adversaries in Iraq are not morally powerful. They are aspiring proto-feudal tyrants, and for that, deserve killing. They have an abysmally evil record. There is no room for them in the modern world. With all due respect, this does not appear to be true about the prisoners in Abu Ghraib. It is exactly the generalization from hostility against the enemy to hostility against people who resemble the enemy that is our own descent into evil. The dehumanization of the enemy, the lumping of all people of the same nationality or race into the category of enemy is evil. It's predictable, it's an all too human failing, but it is evil.