Fisk: Fear and Learning in America

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 17 08:04:14 PDT 2002



>From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com>
>
>Robert Fisk: Fear and learning in America
>
>I've been travelling to the United States for years, lecturing at Princeton
>or Harvard or Brown University, Rhode Island ...

Ho, ho. Nice to see Brunonia is the only one of this trio that needs to be ID'd by state.


>... for the first time in more than a decade of lecturing in the United
>States, I was shocked. Not by the passivity of Americans - the
>all-accepting, patriotic notion that the President knows best - nor by the
>dangerous self-absorption of the United States since 11 September and the
>constant, all-consuming fear of criticising Israel. What shocked me was the
>extraordinary new American refusal to go along with the official line, the
>growing, angry awareness among Americans that they were being lied to and
>deceived.

Hmm, must say I see no evidence of this growing skepticism. But then, I'm far, far from the Midwest.

Carl Brown U. '72

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