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To: Lane3 who wrote (26847)	8/18/2006 10:03:23 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543355

Interesting piece, though I don't think the problems the Bush administration has in the ME have much to do with its bad use of language. Finished Thomas Ricks' book, Fiasco, on Iraq. I highly recommend it as one way to begin to get a grasp of some of the various ways the Bush administration just dropped us all off a cliff in the ME.

To: Lane3 who wrote (26847)	8/19/2006 1:56:03 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543355

If we are going to try to replace tyrannies, we must stop confusing DEMOCRACY with FREEDOM. We must make clear that the principle we support is not the unlimited rule of the majority, but the inalienable rights of the individual. Empowering killers who happen to be democratically elected does not advance the cause of FREEDOM--it destroys it. Unfortunately, AFAIK, the only way to protect FREEDOM is through a majority of the population supporting the idea, i.e. freedom exits only in suitable democracies. Mr. Schwartz, while usefully pointing out the distinctions between the two words, failed to advance any ideas of how to accomplish his goals.