----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 23 November 2002 14:31
Subject: Re: The World is Not Enough
| As usual, I and the U.S. have been definitively corrected by Upton's
| sublime moral sense.
This is progress. "Definitively corrected, yes; but my moral sense is not
anywhere near sublime - fortunately nothing like that quality of performance
was needed here - and an unreliable alarm clock might have done; but this is
a beginning of clarity for you, Frederick. As to the US as a
whole, I think that is beyond me
Previously I might have thought that "a massive
| militarisation worldwide" was being mounted by the Islamofascists
I know of no such grouping as Islamofascists; it seems to me to be a term
without meaning. Do you mean people with brown skins who disagree with you?
; that
| phrases like "attack on civil liberties" and "state kidnap and
| imprisonment without trial" characterized Iraq (and the Taliban, Iran,
| Saudi Arabia, Sudan etc.) more than they did US.
they probably do, but what is that to do with whatI was saying? ("Terribly
clever and original, but not quite relevant", as you said of another,
leaving aside that it is neither clever nor original.)
but I still see progress in that you acknowledge your country's "attack on
civil liberties" and "state kidnap and imprisonment without trial"
and that is better than usual
| the US is the real source of cruelty
I have never said such a thing and don't believe it
The US is *a source of cruelty, yes; but that wasn't even my main point
As to fanaticism, I certainly didn't mention any such thing
the real point I was making was the bullshit which yo-yos repeat as fact
Practise your public speaking, Frederick
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