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To: LindyBill who wrote (167470)	5/23/2006 9:54:09 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793939

I don't think it is possible to build a consensus policy on just about any subect. And yet the Federal Government just gets bigger and more powerfully mandates one size fits all policies and people get more and more angry. Perversely, diversity seems to be the strength of big government. raises the question of whether it is possible to build a consensus policy on the war against terror.

To: LindyBill who wrote (167470)	5/24/2006 12:48:26 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793939

MOST interesting comment! Could it just be....? >>>>> Liberal rage over Bush -- and maybe Lieberman and McCain -- for behaving "illegitimately" and "turning back the clock" is incomprehensible until one realizes that from a certain perspective it represents a double-cross. The West was supposed to die; slowly and comfortably but ineluctably. And we were supposed to buy off the Islamists until we could finish the job ourselves. Bush declaring his intention to fight for the survival of the West was just as logical as Chomsky's pilgrimage to Hezbollah and just as infuriating to his enemies. Until September 11 it was possible for the more "enlightened" segments of society to regard patriotism, religion and similar sentiments with the kind of amused tolerance that one might reserve for simpletons. Nothing that a little institutionalization and spare change couldn't straighten out. The problem for the Democratic Party is that the Great Polite Silence is over. People like Chomsky and President Bush have stopped being hypothetical and become all too real. Bring it on. <<<<<<<<<<