I got the quote from today's news summary in SLATE magazine. I don't remember if it's
from the Washington POST or the New York TIMES.
-- Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 7/29/2003 6:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] quotation du jour
Jim wrote:
>"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal
>affairs of Iraq."
>-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Great quote, sir.
Americans are never foreign in their own eyes any more. Even their
"leaders of foreign policy" are never foreign.
They are always "right there"... wherever they are when they vote to
save the world from tyranny when they vote. (Under 45% vote, right?)
Originally, the U.S. policy (G. Washington) was to shun the world for
fear of accepting their politics... now that the U.S. is Rome and
powerful and the policy is to... well... shun the world for fear of
accepting their politics...
Ken.
--
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there's a twilight where everything
remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that
we must be aware of change in the air, however slight,
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- William O. Douglas
