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2005-07-11 13:55:01
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symptomatically parallel...,
2005-07-11 18:40:27
asymetrical responses:
someday a halfwit columnist like friedman or zakaria might write something like the following:
We are finally, slowly, moving toward recognising that there is a great dysfunction in the West, which has allowed Western governments to concoct wild conspiracy theories, blame others for their problems and, worst of all, condone grotesque violence.
But by the time they do it will already be so long a matter of common regurgitation that any halfwit not employed by a corporate lobbying firm, say the New York Times or Washington Post, will have already figured it out and the halfwit columnist will have to do a rewrite to make sure that it sounds like a product of their own startling genius.
The liberal horizon of allowable discourse on these things never really reaches beyond discussions of improving our "systems of response", or at best our propaganda efforts abroad. To bridge the disconnect between Muslim and Western public perceptions of our foreign policies it's never suggested that a dialogue take place, but that the West must enhance its message delivery, e.g. we have to preach at them better. Suggestions that we might alter our foreign policy to fit within the scope of broad mutual interest - rather than soley our interest - are apparently beyond the pale.
:: posted by buermann @ 2005-07-11 16:49:24 CST |
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