FW: Seattle

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 3 06:49:08 PST 1999



>(NY Times)
>
> > Rebels in Search of Rules
> > By NAOMI KLEIN
> >
[snip]


> > The W.T.O. has consistently sought to sever trade, quite unnaturally,
>from
> > everything and everyone affected by it: workers, the environment,
>culture.
> > This is why President Clinton's suggestion yesterday that the rift
>between
> > the protesters and the delegates can be smoothed over with small
> > compromises and consultation is so misguided.

So misguided ... and so characteristic. President Billy Bob really hit the ground running in Seattle, triangulating for all he was worth. If he gets away with his Mr. Empathy act this time, all the fuss in Seattle will have been for nothing.

Carl

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