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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Marvin Long, Jr.
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> And all of this has exactly *what* to do with anything I've said, or with
> what Friedman said?
It had do with your suggestion that my criticism of Friedman meant that I
would "deny that in certain areas, we are a hell of a lot better than al
Qaeda and the Taliban, and those things are worth fighting to preserve."
That was unfair. I'm annoyed that my criticism of *Friedman* has been
characterized as criticism of the values he espouses and our nation... and
that I therefore must think our nation is inferior to the terrorists and we
shouldn't fight for it. Sheesh, saying it that plainly makes it sound
ridiculous.
You tossed me into a box with those words, undeservedly. I was fighting
back against the very notion of putting people into such boxes. And I took
the opportunity to expand into criticism of Gautam's righteous-wing American
fundamentalism, an extreme example of tossing people into boxes, which you
should, indeed, not take personally... ;-)
Nick
