my pal Pete

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Oct 8 18:47:08 PDT 2002


Joanna wrote:


> So, like if this guy is your friend Doug, I'm sorry, but he's either
stupid
> or he's been in academia too long.

Nope. You just failed to read the passage you allude to with due care.


> How could anyone imagine (anyone over the age of eight) that what Bush is
> doing is protecting the rights of American citizens.

At no point did Singer claim that "Bush is protecting the interest of American citizens." He merely said that there's an argument (perhaps with some force) that leaders (naturally Bush and probably even Saddam Hussein included) ought to give "some priority" to the interests of their own citizens.

-- Luke



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