[lit-ideas] Re: Endurring rebuke
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:56:34 -0600
Lawrence Helm wrote:
Thanks for the correction John. Time and time again you, Mike and a
few others have exhorted me to quit wasting my time reading experts
and scholars and to rely upon Leftist osmosis for my information, but
I guess I got into some bad habits early on and can't seem to break
them. . . .
I apologize for a momentary lapse into modern foreign affairs (by
erroneously assuming that everyone realized what a disruptive force
Saddam Hussein was, intimidating his neighbors, our allies, preventing
Saudi Arabia from helping us track down Al Quaeda members, shooting at
our airplanes and British airplanes on a weekly if not a daily basis,
violating the 1991 truce, making deals for anything he wanted with
corrupt politicians in France, Russia and elsewhere, supporting
terrorist organizations and the like . . . shoot there I go again.
Sorry. It is really hard to quit.
I wasn't necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with Hussein's line of
reasoning, just pointing out that there was SOME foundation for his line
of thought. Or, to put it in a way you might appreciate: He was no more
(or less) crazy than a LOT of American liberals....
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John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lisle, IL, USA
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