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To: Dale Baker who wrote (29089)	9/25/2006 5:11:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541605

It was a tall order. As I recall Ken had to ban a lot of people. 38 to be exact. If he came back my guess is he'd have to ban at least half (maybe more) of the people posting on his thread now.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (29089)	9/25/2006 8:45:07 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541605

Partisanship has rarely stopped at the water's edge in practice. I completely agree with this. But it's the position of outfits like the Council on Foreign Relations that it should not. And they tended to downplay the obvious occasions in which it had. That was one of the many fascinating parts of listing to tek defend their positions. You can, for instance, read Ken Pollack's book on the Iraq invasion as an act of consensus foreign policy, pulling the obviously neoconservative arguments of folk like Wolfowitz into the fold. Tek had several of us reading it, for instance. The content of discussions was focused enough to do that. And Ken effectively banned certain sources on the left and right. No Chomsky; no Buchanan; etc. One of my displeasures.