[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitics and newsgroup dynamics

2006-05-11 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: --- Gillam wrote: Slate's Fred Kaplan explains why and how President Bush should answer Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter. It's a very good essay, Patrick. It's really hard to see what Bush could lose by taking Kaplan's advice. I like

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitics and newsgroup dynamics

2006-05-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend wrote: --- Gillam wrote: Slate's Fred Kaplan explains why and how President Bush should answer Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter. It's a very good essay, Patrick.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitics and newsgroup dynamics

2006-05-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend wrote: --- Gillam wrote: Slate's Fred Kaplan explains why and how President Bush should answer Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter. It's a very good essay, Patrick.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitics and newsgroup dynamics

2006-05-11 Thread Patrick Gillam
Hey, thanks! I wasn't enterprising enough. I'll check them out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: --- authfriend wrote: --- Gillam wrote: Slate's Fred Kaplan

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitics and newsgroup dynamics

2006-05-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, thanks! I wasn't enterprising enough. I'll check them out. Well, I've now read them all, including the blog posts, and most of them aren't terribly edifying (especially the newspaper pieces). The best of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitics and newsgroup dynamics

2006-05-11 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: There may be more interesting stuff in the comments to the blog posts, but you typically have to wade through a fair amount of inanity to find the nuggets. I only looked at the responses to Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog. These were interesting: Ran Talbott

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitics and newsgroup dynamics

2006-05-11 Thread authfriend
Just for the sake of keeping score, here's another one, from TPM Cafe: http://matthewyglesias.tpmcafe.com/node/29756#comment The comment, if the person has their facts straight, sounds like a good point. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---