--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think statements indicating that the > administration is obviously telling the truth and > that anyone not agreeing this is either what? > stupid? venal? totally naive? totally cynical?
Taken advantage of by people more interested in political power than the national interest. What's it's really about, though, is hate. Well, hate and envy. A large portion of the world's left just goes batshit crazy at the idea of George Bush. So much so that no one, nothing, is more important than beating him. Defending a sociopathic dictator? No problem, as long as it hurts George Bush. A lot of it probably has to do with collapse of an ideology. September 11th was the deathknell of the modern American left. It simply had no meaningful response to the attack other than to suggest - either openly or by implication - that the United States had brought the attack upon itself. I spent the year after the attacks in Cambridge - a place where the left would generate something coherent if it was capable of it _anywhere_ - and it didn't, and isn't. The public saw this, and the public rejected it, and fully and finally awakened itself from its post-Vietnam slumbers. George Bush's reelection will be the final stake in the heart of an ideology whose dominant feature for the last 30 years has been the defense of any enemy of the United States, no matter how vile, starting with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro, and ending with Saddam Hussein. That's what this is really about - the rest is just frippery. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
