Posted on 02/22/2005 3:26:34 PM PST by directorblue
Did you know that our beloved country was not founded until March 4, 1789 - not July 4, 1776?
I wrote an editorial for one of the metro dailies a few weeks back. SEDHE is, I think, a group blog based in the Midwest that took issue with the editorial. In it -- written only days before the Iraqi election -- I reprised Joshua Muravchik's key points regarding the crucial onset of democracy among predominantly Arab countries in the Middle East.
Rather than address any of the salient thrusts of the article, Mark (of SEDHE) pulled the Al Franken-esque trick of chipping away at the periphery in hopes of discrediting the larger argument. Let's take a quick, Fisky look at Mark's objections to my piece...
(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...
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