le Carre: U.S. has gone mad

[Carl Remick]

>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
>At 10:04 PM +0000 1/15/03, Carl Remick wrote:
>>But has there ever been a people as tractable and eager to be misled as 
>>Americans?
>
>The Japanese at the height of the militarist and imperialist years?
>--
>Yoshie

Point taken.  Perhaps I should just say its wondrously strange that 
Americans -- possessing two centuries of hearty self-congratulation about 
their robust individualism and the strength of their democratic spirit and 
traditions -- are as tractable and eager to be misled as the are.

Carl

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