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To: Lane3 who wrote (22839)	7/5/2006 8:45:39 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541422

Directly fighting competing values... well, yes, in the case of the red mennace we were- I speak here of the national perception, not of my personal evaluation of what was going on. I don't know if you've read any of the speeches from this period recently. If not, you might want to. They're interesting. And no- it doesn't make everything a moral crusade- though there certainly are a lot of moral crusades out there. Moral crusading requires some Big Idea- so it doesn't include the odd football game- but it does make big undertakings where there are "good" guys and "bad" guys moral crusades. But moral crusades aren't just limited to opposing other people- you can have moral crusades for noble goals, where many people band together in a campaign (a synonym for crusade). So moral crusades against drink, or for literacy, would make sense- linguistically. So we'll disagree it you don't see the space race and the race for the bomb as part moral crusades.