On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:24:19 -0600 Michael Pugliese
<michael.098762001 at gmail.com> writes:
> http://frum.nationalreview.com/
> >...It's not just Dick Durbin. Here is another distinguished liberal,
> Professor Tony Judt of New York University, who also has difficulty
> telling the difference between the United States on the one hand and
> Nazi Germany - or is it the Soviet Union? - on the other:
>
>
> The supreme irony here is that this same Professor Judt once wrote a
> very fine book about the moral imbecility of French intellectuals -
> in
> particular their ability to delude themselves that American democracy
> was the moral equivalent of Soviet totalitarianism. Now the professor
> has succumbed to the very same disease he diagnosed a decade ago.
> 11:28 PM
>
I suppose both, that Professor Judt has learned a thing or two over the past decade, and that events of the past decade, including especially those since 9-11 have stripped away some of the illusions that he may have had concerning American democracy. Perhaps, those French intellectuals weren't such moral imbeciles after all.