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'Bomb Texas': The psychological roots of anti-Americanism
Opinion Journal ^ | 01/13/03 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/12/2003 9:14:21 PM PST by Pokey78

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

With this past autumn's discussion in Washington over what to do about Iraq there arrived also the season of protests. They were everywhere. In the national newspapers, Common Cause published a full-page letter, backed by "7,000 signatories," demanding (as if it had been outlawed) a "full and open debate" before any American action against Iraq. More radical cries emanated from Not in Our Name, a nationwide "project" spearheaded by Noam Chomsky and affiliates, which likewise ran full-page advertisements in the major papers decrying America's "war without limit," organized "Days of Resistance" in New York and elsewhere, and in general made known its feeling that the United States rather than Iraq poses the real threat to world peace. At one late-October march in Washington, there were signs proclaiming "I Love Iraq, Bomb Texas," and depicting President Bush wearing a Hitler mustache and giving the Nazi salute.


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KEYWORDS: andrewsullivanlist; clashofcivilizatio; peggynoonanlist
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1 posted on 01/12/2003 9:14:21 PM PST by Pokey78
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2 posted on 01/12/2003 9:16:51 PM PST by Pokey78
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3 posted on 01/12/2003 9:18:47 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Heuristic Hiker
Victor Davis Hanson ping.
4 posted on 01/12/2003 9:25:35 PM PST by Utah Girl (Here I come to save the day, Mighty Mouse is on his way!!!)
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To: Thud
ping
5 posted on 01/12/2003 9:41:54 PM PST by Dark Wing
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To: Pokey78
Excellent essay. Thank you for the post.
6 posted on 01/12/2003 10:14:32 PM PST by Maynerd
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To: Pokey78
Should be required reading for every high school student in the country.
7 posted on 01/12/2003 10:38:29 PM PST by lorrainer
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In [their] protected world, ..., it is not surprising that those most critical of America are not the purported victims of its supposedly rapacious capitalist system--farm workers, car mechanics or welders--but [instead] those in the arts, universities, media and government who have the time and leisure to contemplate utopian perfection without firsthand and daily exposure to backbreaking physical labor, unrepentant bullies or unapologetically violent criminals. ... [and] enables a fanciful shift from thinking in the immediate and concrete to idle musings of the distant and abstract.

For many, today's affluence is also accompanied by an unprecedented sense of security.

Long, long read, but I found it worth every paragraph. Good insight, and synopsis. I will bookmark, print, and highlight this article to show around to some of my friends and intellectual competitors.

PING!!!

8 posted on 01/12/2003 10:59:25 PM PST by AFPhys
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Worth Repeating. Excellent, excellent essay.

Big BUMP
9 posted on 01/12/2003 11:13:48 PM PST by baseballmom
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To: Pokey78
Here's a keeper. This guy is on his game today.
10 posted on 01/12/2003 11:19:00 PM PST by beckett
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To: Pokey78
Israel could give over the entire West Bank, suffer 10,000 dead from suicide bombers, and apologize formally for its existence, and it would still be despised by American and European intellectuals for being what it is--Western, prosperous, confident, and successful amid a sea of abject self-induced failure.

Sums up the entire Middle East conflict in one sentence. Slam dunk.
11 posted on 01/12/2003 11:48:07 PM PST by July 4th
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To: Pokey78
Thanks. An exceptional article.
12 posted on 01/13/2003 2:54:59 AM PST by KeyWest
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To: Pokey78
Bump for later reading.
13 posted on 01/13/2003 3:18:58 AM PST by MindyW
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To: Pokey78
The superciliousness of the educated knows no end...

Spot on!
Thanks, Pokey78.

14 posted on 01/13/2003 3:31:26 AM PST by metesky
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To: Pokey78
Thanks for the ping....a worthy read.
15 posted on 01/13/2003 4:10:08 AM PST by xp38
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To: Pokey78
Bump.
16 posted on 01/13/2003 4:21:17 AM PST by Rocko
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To: Pokey78
Long, but worthy read.
17 posted on 01/13/2003 4:38:38 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Pokey78
The example of Rome, in short, is an apt one,

Very true, but not quite for the reasons this fellow cites.

The old right takes solace in the fact that our own cultural decay was/is well along before the thirst for empire set in.

18 posted on 01/13/2003 5:03:07 AM PST by iconoclast
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Heh. I read this around two in the morning, said "Wow!" woke up my wife to read it to her, and got a "Wow!" from her as well.
19 posted on 01/13/2003 5:15:11 AM PST by Celtjew Libertarian (Not the usual reason my wife says "Wow!" when I wake her at 2 a.m. 8>))
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---snip---
As in the medieval church or among Soviet apparatchiks, the pull of groupspeak is always strong among compliant and opportunistic elites. For today's intellectuals, professors and artists, being on the team pays real dividends when it comes to tenure, promotion, publication, reviews, lecture invitations, social acceptance and psychic reassurance. And the dividends are compound: One is a lockstep member of one's crowd and one enjoys the frisson of dissidence, of being at variance, but always so comfortably at variance, with one's benighted fellow citizens.




Brilliant article - one to be printed out, studied, and used (tactfullly of course) in discussions with 'groupthinkers.'
20 posted on 01/13/2003 6:35:14 AM PST by maica
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