Re: The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing By Lee Harris

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue 10 Dec 2002 - 23:42:39 GMT

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    > Joe:
    > >Let me attempt to explain this in another way. There is always a gap
    > > between the intolerable and the unattainable ideal of the perfect;
    > >the perfect keeps changing, as novel opportunities result from
    > >technological advance, so the intolerable advances, too. If the
    > >actual situation falls to the intolerable, revolution results, but
    > >before this can happen, people vote to change things; thus, a
    > >democracy maintains itself between the intolerable and the perfect,
    > >in a perpetually evolving yet always tolerable spectrum.
    >
    > Bingo, but where does that lead to, a decline in USAnia-bashing or an
    > improvement in its foreign policy? Jeremy
    >
    It's been improving for quite a while; the US's most recent military interventions (in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan, and - possibly - Iraq) have been on the side of the angels.
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