Doug
Michael Pugliese wrote:
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>From: <mailto:leocasey at aol.com>leocasey at aol.com
>To: <mailto:asdnet at igc.topica.com>asdnet at igc.topica.com
>Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:07 AM
>Subject: RE: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
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>There must be two Christopher Hitchens, since Wolin is responding to
>an article that is almost, point for point, the opposite of the
>"Against Rationalization" one I read.
>
><< There is something especially sinister about the article you
>forwarded to me. By focusing on the purportedly profound question of
>"why" Tuesday's events came to pass instead of the question of "how"
>(as if this "why" is a mystery to all but the "enlightened"
>Christopher Hitchens), Hitchens suggests, via insinuation and
>innuendo, that in essence the United States brought this attack upon
>itself. This is the clear thrust of Hitchens's essay. But, in
>cowardly fashion, he refuses to state his thesis directly, for fear,
>no doubt, of having to take responsibility for its implications.
>
>In the recent Guardian article and elsewhere, Hitchens insinuates
>that this "why" is a relatively simple matter: the US is supporting
>a "racist" Israeli government that has brought untold and undeserved
>woe upon the innocently suffering peoples of the Middle East - the
>Palestinians in particular. But in making such claims, Hitchens
>makes things too easy for himself. Here, too, I'm afraid Hitchens
>needs another history lesson - a field that's obviously not his
>strong point. >>
>
>Leo Casey
>United Federation of Teachers
>260 Park Avenue South
>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
>It never has, and it never will.
>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are
>men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain
>without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful
>roar of its waters.
>
>-- Frederick Douglass --
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