[Rhodes22-list] Politics - chiaroscuro

[stan]

me thinks the son is beginning to influence the Father. - there is hope yet.

off to Annapolis.

stan/gbi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics - chiaroscuro


> Dear G,
> 
> Please give me a link to your Fouad Ajami reference if
> you have it.  I have read his article in the Jan/Feb
> 2003 Foreign Affairs magazine and a few others but
> nothing recent.  
> 
> We agree on this, the ultimate fate of Iraq belongs to
> the Iraq's.  Regardless of how one feels about the
> justifications for the current occupation of Iraq, we
> are there and to pull out now or announce a date
> specific pull out would only encourage the insurgents
> to wait us out, just as in Vietnam.  There is no
> shortage of current literature critical of the
> occupation including a lengthy article by James
> Fallows in this months Atlantic Monthly.  In fact, if
> you read the transcript of Kerry's Iraq positions
> during the debate, you will notice Kerry neatly
> mirrows Fallows, which more than one blogger in
> cyberspace has noticed as well.
> 
> So, our choice is between one leader who doggedly
> remains on course,  versus another who follows the
> latest read of yesterdays "game tape"  I personally
> would feel more confident of a critic if he had made
> an impassioned plea against the war in advance.  
> 
> Kerry won the debate on style, expected when you
> consider his 20 years of practice in the debate
> society we call the Senate.  For those opposed to our
> current engagement it is indeed unfortunate that this
> style and passion was missing in the Fall of 2002.
> 
> We ARE all wearing the blue dress now, though I prefer
> that it be a red one on November 2.
> 
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"
> --- Grayson/Ena Lynn <agl2001 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>