----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
On the contrary, the Bush team and right-wing pundits have been making use of the idea of history as progress to exonerate themselves, essentially saying that our torture is more progressive than their torture. -- Yoshie
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Even as the idea of progress is an anathema to conservatives lest we progress ourselves 'away' from that which they seek to conserve.
"The pure conservative is fighting against the essence of the universe." [A.N. Whitehead]
Ian