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To: LindyBill who wrote (58842)	8/9/2004 12:34:42 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793620

I heard a debate on NPR between Jonathan Schell of The Nation and a Polish journalist named Mishnick who spoke in Polish and must have been hell to translate because he stammered badly. But he made good sense and he gets it about the War on Terror. They were debating about Iraq. Schell gave the now standard "Imperial adventure, Vietnam quagmire, unilateral disaster" line. Mishnick, a "new European", with humor replied that he had to sort out two kinds of American-centric arrogance: George Bush's, which says, "America is the best", and Jonathan Schell's, which says, "America is the worst." There are, he said, other players, and worse regimes on the board. Schell could not see it. Oh, in a theoretical kind of way he could admit that China or North Korea is worse, but he cannot see that Islamo-fascism represents an enemy ideology now grasping for power in Iraq, totalitarian and aggressive in nature. Schell can only see Iraq as Vietnam II: hopeless from the get-go. In fact, he can't seem to see or admit that Islamo-fascism exists at all. Period. Well, if Islamo-fascism does not exist, then the rest of the looney left argument follows naturally. There is no enemy, so obviously George Bush is making one up to scare the bejesus out of everybody, establish a fascist state, and launch imperial adventures for the sake of ooooiiilll and to enrich his buddies at Halliburton. If there's no enemy, what other reason could there be? I think something like half or more of the Democratic base believes this argument. It makes sensible political discourse almost impossible.