--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if war on Iraq is right or wrong.  I am
> quite sure that if it
> is the right thing to do (or perhaps I should say
> the "best" thing), that
> wouldn't make disrespect for peace advocates right. 
> I want to live in a
> country and community where that voice remains
> strong, right alongside the
> voices of those who are guarding our borders and
> security.
> 
> Nick

I feel some level of satisfaction in that this is
_exactly_ what I said in one of my last posts -
anti-war people who are themselves criticized
instantly cry censorship.  What nonsense.  If you
don't think that many of the most prominent anti-war
critics are not, in fact, anti-American, you haven't
been paying attention.  Read some Noam Chomsky and
tell me that one again.  It isn't trying to stifle
dissent (something that isn't happening, and that no
reasonable person could think is happening, or why
haven't the brownshirts taken over the New York Times
yet?) to call a spade a spade, or to point out the
real motivations and actions of some of the people on
one side of this debate.  Just as in Vietnam, when
Jane Fonda revealed her true colors when she went to
Hanoi, some members of the far left in this country
are showing those with eyes to see what really
motivates them.  Conservatives (like me) are calling
them on it and pointing this out.  Then the cries of
censorship and fascism take flight, but, you know
what?  No reasonable person believes them.  Maybe in
the leftist echo chamber Nick, you can tell other
people who already agree with you that those of us who
spend some time and effort point out what's really
going on are closet fascists, but no one outside that
echo chamber is even going to take you seriously,
because it's so obviously not the case.

Gautam

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