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To: ig who wrote (91062)	12/17/2004 10:03:25 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793800

How would turning Gap countries into Core countries be a "repackaged lefty idea"? I am not into either progressive or anti-progressive dogma enough to give one of my nuanced analyses <g> but the basis of my observation is this. Progressives have been skewered since 9/11 for the notion that the terrorists do this because they're "have-nots." They're "depraved on account of they're deprived," to quote West Side Story. So here we have a framing of Barnett's work in terms of haves and have-nots with Barnett's apparent blessing. Oh, the irony! As to how the left and the right would "turn Gap countries into Core countries" or have-nots into haves there is a huge difference. The left would give them self-respect, justice, and hand-outs. The right would invade them, topple their governments, and set up democracy and commerce. Though their solutions are different, at a conceptual level, each wants to turn Gap into Core. Hence my comment. We label "have-nots" "gap" and the lefty notion becomes acceptable to the right.