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To: pickrell
The elections in the middle east did not 'suddenly and magically infuse' Lebanon and Palestine with extremist voters

That's not what Will said at all.
He didn't say the elections created the extremist voters, he said the elections created an extremist government.

8 posted on 07/18/2006 8:08:52 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
"...That's not what Will said at all. He didn't say the elections created the extremist voters, he said the elections created an extremist government..."

In order to get a better view of the forest, apparently we need to cut down those annoying trees.

It is only quite recently that "voters" even existed at all in the Middle East. It is an American invention, this self detremination stuff. Before then, the Caliphs decided who got stoned to death each morning.

A "government" is not something distinct and separate from the wishes of the people. A government is a distillation of what people will tolerate and what they will cheer for.

Tyrants and thugs have long understood this. We need to also.

George Will then posits that there is a difference between a "government" which is controlled and intimidated through fear and evil, by a group of murderous thugs... and a government which is controlled and intimidated through fear and evil by a group of murderous thugs, who bothered to place a few of their own on the city council, as it were.

Do you really find a difference in this?

Do you really believe that it will prevent one round from being fired, or cause one second of pause, in the forces who reply to attacks upon their people? Will the jews appreciate the subtlety, as they clean up the blood pools? I had to be flip in my reply, but isn't this an example of an anti-semantic attitude?

9 posted on 07/18/2006 8:30:59 AM PDT by pickrell (Old dog, new trick...sort of)
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