Joseph Catron wrote:
>
> Parenti was wrong*- and given his previous writing on the topic, I can
> only
> believe consciously so - to claim that occupied Afghanistan is
> *something
> other than a theocracy, when cleanly it is *not. My apologies if
> something
> unclear in my wording led you to believe I meant the opposite.
>
> --
Pile up that many negatives (See * above) in one sentence and you gurantee that someone will misunderstand you.
I would not try myself to construe this sentence, but perhaps it is because I haven't been following the thread very closely.
Carrol