--- Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's interesting, Damon. You are _literally_ > the > > first person with military experience I've > > communciated with who thinks that Clark should be > > allowed in the White House on anything other than > a> > public tour. Did you encounter him while you were> > in> > the service?
Of all the relentlessly partisan sillinesses, this tops the cake. A four star general who was a Rhodes Scholar (YOU were waving academic credentials) who was recommended by his peers to the President to be chosen for the very top command in all the military, command of NATO... ... who then handled BOTH the delicate diplomacy and the strategic decisions involved in our most intricate, complex and vastly most successful war in all of history... this is the guy who the fanatic-Limbaughite slander machine is gearing up against now. I can't wait to hear the sly lies and innuendos they come up with THIS time. Oh and I talk to generals and admirals regularly. They all like him. But that misses the point. It is the REFLEX of partisanship that intrigues me. I must come from different genetic stock. My reflex is to poke away at any rigid doctrine I happen to meet. For the last few days it was Gautam's and John's retro-rightwing partisanship. Next week I am to take on some liberals. (What fun!) Deep down, I find you guys so incredibly puzzling. Oh, on the other matter, it is common to conflate "fascism" with 'dictatorship". They are not the same things. They usually overlap. But fascism is a socialist-syndicalist-nationalist movement. The symbol of the fasci says it all. It creates a rigidly identified 'party" and holds that it is purely virtuous and deserving of monopolized power, lest nasty unsavory "others" succeed in their vile schemes. Sound familiar? ;-) Now I really am outta here. Please folks. Edit Brin: off this continuing discussion. I gotta go back to work. Until next time! db ===== . . * Please note. My email address of many years is changing FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... (Or else use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
