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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (17986)	5/8/2006 11:26:44 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 543303

Thanks for posting the bit from Krugman's piece this morning. I had read it and, as usual, ranted a little over the Times policy of blocking us from posting those publicly. I like, however, your strategy of posting a paragraph or so. As for the usual list of suspects as you call them, I agree but I'm focused on the very explicit attempt to use personal attacks on academics rather than address the substance of their arguments. There are many, obviously, not just the attacks on Cole. We've seen yet more of it in the attacks on Walt and Mearsheimer. It's a terrible precedent because it tends to lead to retaliation (precious little of that yet) and then we are off to much more troubled waters than the present.