--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had to use Google on Jonah to find out who he was, > but all I saw > was a rather unremarkable conservative columnist (I > do feel sorry for > his wife, no, not that way, I mean because she > writes speeches for > Ashcroft). I couldn't find the text you talked > about, though, and I'm > still not sure whether my comments being similar to > Jonah's is a good > thing or a bad thing.
It's neither. It's a _funny_ thing. You two are very, umm, different. As for unremarkable, well, he's one of the better political writers out there, and in a field crowded with boring stuffed shirts, that's a quality not to be scorned. I certainly enjoy reading his stuff even when I don't agree with him, as opposed to, say, Josh Marshall, who appears to have had his sense of humor surgically removed. > The European left genuinely wish the US ill? I think that there are more than a few who do, yes. Anti-Americanism is, in the end, the only ideology left to them. The final and spectacular collapse of communism and socialism is pretty obvious to anyone with eyes to see it. What's left but hatred for the country which embodies all of the things that the left - particularly the European left - despises? Meritocracy, free markets, consumerism, military strength, religious belief. When people think of the US, those are at least a few of the things they think of, and those are very much the qualities that the European left has defined itself in opposition to. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
