From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 13:33:04 MST
Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> We are having a serious discussion of issues. Do you suppose you
> could leave out that sort of attack? You were answered brilliantly on
these
> pages yesterday on that very issue. In addition may I point out the
> contradictory nature of the attacks from the opposition that are made
against
> President Bush?
Ron,
One of the wonderful things about living in a democracy such as the United
States is that (for the while, anyway) anyone can say anything one wants to
about the President. And, since you brought up the subject of attack, who's
really attacking whom?
Maybe John le Carre has not been "answered brilliantly" (and is therefore
unenlightened), but here are his thoughts about the issue you've been
discussing:
"Back Out in the Cold
John le Carre, author of spy thrillers like The Spy Who Came In From the
Cold, says the US is going into "one of its periods of historical madness,"
but, he says, "this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism,
worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous
than the Vietnam War."
This is all Osama bin Laden's dream come true, says le Carre. "Without bin
Laden, the Bush junta would still be trying to explain such tricky matters
as how it came to be elected in the first place; Enron; its shameless
favouring of the already-too-rich; its reckless disregard for the world's
poor, the ecology and a raft of unilaterally abrogated international
treaties. They might also have to be telling us why they support Israel in
its continuing disregard for UN resolutions. But bin Laden conveniently
swept all that under the carpet. The Bushies are riding high."
Olga
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