At 10:03 PM 3/11/2003 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
>You are not just taking a stand for what you believe in, you are also taking
>a contemptuous stand against anyone who disagrees. And make no mistake, I
>see this just as plainly in many of those who are against this war. That is
>the behavior of fear and foolishness, not strength and wisdom.
Nick,
All that high-falutin' talk of your message is all well and good - but the
essential point of Gautam and myself is that the anti-war, or more
appropriately, the anti-Bush, crowd has not:
1) Presented a coherent *positive* case for their position, based in the
facts of the day
nor
2) Presented a coherent alternative to war, describing policies to be
advocated from the present day.
All that stuff you wrote about earlier in your message is predicated upon
the opposition fulfilling those two basic requirements. Thus far, they,
and in particular, you, have not. As such, until the anti-war movement
fulfills those two basic requirements of intellectual discount, they are in
fact quite worthy of the reaction they are getting.
JDG
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