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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (213458)	7/26/2007 2:22:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794234

"Yet the vast majority of statesmen believe in purely operational talk after terrorist acts....W hy does such a better way not include a call for sterner moral judgment, forcefully expressed?" This author does a fine job of listing excuses for not making these statements, but he doesn't even try to tell us why they should be made. "Here one would like to see a poll. Politicians might be surprised by the result." That's as close as he comes. He assumes that a majority would prefer moral judgments to "proper official behavior." I've yet to see a rational argument for preferring them. "If We Don't Call Them Names, the Terrorists Win" Great title, but the essay doesn't even bother to make it's title argument.