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To: RWR8189

My random observations on this article:

1) Disraeli was, at least, a conservative in the Anglo tradition. There is a difference between British conservatism as traditionally understood and those of US founding principles. He was a mixture of unabashed imperialist and follow-the-spirit-of-the-ages type of do-liberal-policies conservative. For a country with a defined principles as stands, it is not wise to blind copy from a politician coming from such an alien political culture.

2) This is one of the characters you can stuck back at the British anti-American leftists when they rant on imperialism and Bush etc. Other names include Joseph Chamberlain, Rudyard Kipling, etc.

3) Do today's British youths - the vulgar generation, who know nothing but sex, David Beckham, cannbis-legalization, The Verve, the Osbornes, Kyoto Protocol's feel-good appearance, really know who Disraeli was?


18 posted on 02/01/2005 3:37:11 AM PST by NZerFromHK ("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
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To: NZerFromHK
Do today's British youths ... really know who Disraeli was?

From what I read, British schools still do a better job teaching history than we do. So students could probably place Disraeli, in a Prime Minister-Victoria-Gladstone-Crimea-reformofsomething sorta way.

I wonder whether he'd find anti-Semitism worse during the Victorian period, or today?

19 posted on 02/01/2005 5:07:54 AM PST by Tax-chick (Some people say that Life is the thing, but I prefer reading.)
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