Re: American Friends Service Committee nominates terrorist sympathizers for Nobel Peace Prize

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PDavis <DELETETHIS_pmdlandarch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Ian Davis" <ijdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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PDavis <DELETETHIS_pmdlandarch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have read that the pyramids were constructed by space aliens. I place
that information pretty much in the same category.


How about this information, published today in the New Yorker?

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060227fa_fact


Ian

I believe that it shows that there are Democrats in the military and
Democrats in the press who are willing to report their opinions. Overall, I
believe that it would be healthy for the country provided that the
criticisms could be done with a higher level of responsibility and honesty.
But then, the entire Clinton issue was whether or not truthfulness was
important, with the leadership of one major political party from top to
bottom saying that honesty is NOT a characteristic that is important in a
President.

Personally, I believe that party has shot it's lost round of credibility for
the next 30 years.



I rather suspect that I'll live to see the same said about the US. The
rest of the world isn't blaming the democrats for the lost of American
credibility for at least the next 30 years. I will agree that democrats
seem to be just about as "all over the map, and going nowhere" as our
conservatives here tend to be, but I don't think it fair to blame the
democrats for the decisions George Bush has taken and must assume
command responsibility for. He has turned a once proud and respected
nation into a nation which internationally now generates sentiments
that lies somewhere between distaste, disgust, and revulsion, depending
on precisely which pictures it is one is viewing, or whose story it is
one is reading about. You will of course say that all the wrong stems
from a few bad apples, but that would be to miss the big picture. The
big picture is that there is a growing believe that the horrors
perpetrated by America result not from a few bad apples but rather
from a system that is rotten to the core. To the extent that the
American people sanction and prop up a regime which violated peoples
basic human rights, the world will judge the American people as rotten
to the core. I'm not saying they will be right to, but I am saying
that is simple reality. The only way in which any in America can
alter that perception is by speaking out in defence of that which is
right and opposing that which is wrong irrespective of party lines..
and for the rest of the world that means championing human rights,
international treaties, and the rule of law, rather than supporting an
administration that has put such issues a very long way down in its
list of priorities.

On the subject of Bill Clinton's lies... I've spent the last few years
wondering which is better for a nation: to be blessed with a leader
who is so skillful at the art of diplomacy that they can lie to the
world, and never be doubted, or one so inept at diplomacy that all his
lies are left exposed to ridicule. I rather suspect that a nation is
better blessed with the second option, than the first, because there
is at least the hope that the nation as a nation knowing that it had
been lied to might actually do something constructive about that fact.
Not likely, but at least possible.

Since you seem to be somewhat in George Bush's camp Paul, I will say
that I personally think he is right to defend the right of Arabs to
run ports. I'm with Justin Raimondo on this one.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8587

Ian
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