[Rhodes22-list] Politics - chiaroscuro

[Grayson/Ena Lynn]

Brad:

I think I picked up the Ajami reference from a TV interview; I can't find
anything like it in text.

One thing you gotta say for Monday morning quarterbacks; they do know the
score.  I much prefer to be late with the right answer than early with the
wrong.

<G>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics - chiaroscuro


> Dear G,
>
> Please give me a link to your Fouad Ajami reference if
> you have it.  I have read his article in the Jan/Feb
> 2003 Foreign Affairs magazine and a few others but
> nothing recent.
>
> We agree on this, the ultimate fate of Iraq belongs to
> the Iraq's.  Regardless of how one feels about the
> justifications for the current occupation of Iraq, we
> are there and to pull out now or announce a date
> specific pull out would only encourage the insurgents
> to wait us out, just as in Vietnam.  There is no
> shortage of current literature critical of the
> occupation including a lengthy article by James
> Fallows in this months Atlantic Monthly.  In fact, if
> you read the transcript of Kerry's Iraq positions
> during the debate, you will notice Kerry neatly
> mirrows Fallows, which more than one blogger in
> cyberspace has noticed as well.
>
> So, our choice is between one leader who doggedly
> remains on course,  versus another who follows the
> latest read of yesterdays "game tape"  I personally
> would feel more confident of a critic if he had made
> an impassioned plea against the war in advance.
>
> Kerry won the debate on style, expected when you
> consider his 20 years of practice in the debate
> society we call the Senate.  For those opposed to our
> current engagement it is indeed unfortunate that this
> style and passion was missing in the Fall of 2002.
>
> We ARE all wearing the blue dress now, though I prefer
> that it be a red one on November 2.
>
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"
> --- Grayson/Ena Lynn <agl2001 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Phyllis wrote:
> >
> > > I respect a person who can think through, analyze
> > a situation, and when
> > > presented with corrective information, i.e. the
> > intelligence was wrong...
> > then
> > > formulates a new position and advocate it.
> >
> > > That is leadership to me, not someone who is so
> > dogmatic, one-sighted and
> > > unwilling to do anything differently than follow
> > the misguided pals around
> > > him...
> >
> > Spot on!
> >
> > Add to that Fouad Ajami's observation that Bush
> > cannot win the war, Kerry
> > cannot win the war, UBL cannot win the war, America
> > cannot win the war.
> > Only Iraqis can win the war.
> >
> > Case closed.
> >
> > The true flip-flop, or bi-stable latch circuit, was
> > invented by Eccles and
> > Jordan in 1919 and became the fundamental building
> > block of the computer
> > world.  Without the flip-flop and it's cousins AND,
> > OR and NOT, "digital"
> > would not exist, cell phones would not work, and
> > rock music synthesizers
> > would be silent (a silver lining to every cloud).
> >
> >
> http://pt.withy.org/ptalk/archives/thought_for_the_day/
> >
> > Like the bumper sticker said, we're all wearing the
> > blue dress now.
> >
> > <G>
> >
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