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

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 11 Dec 2002 - 01:12:49 GMT

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    > At 05:42 PM 10/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
    > >> 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.
    > >>
    > Only if you are an 'angel' Joe. That is the memetic problem - memes
    > only acceptance of the acceptable. Jeremy
    >
    Well, Baby Doc, Aidid, Milosevic, Karadzic, Mladic, Bin Laden and Omar didn't appreciate it any more than Saddam seems to relish the prospect - but you are known by your enemies as well as by your friends.
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