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  • Why I'm Betting On Barack Obama's Victory

    07/11/2008 5:33:29 PM PDT · by Cincinna · 47 replies · 125+ views
    The New Republic ^ | July 10, 2008 | Bernard-Henri Lévy
    There are unknowns, of course. The persona of John McCain is already in play and it would be wrong to underestimate him. The man is remarkable, surprising in his opposition to torture and Guantanamo, audacious when he challenged the economic policies of the two Bush administrations. And isn't it said that Democrat John Kerry considered for a time asking this unconventional conservative to share the ticket with him? Then there is also the American art of "junk politics," especially as practiced by the Republicans, and its unpredictable, often devastating effects. When will the below-the-belt stuff begin? On what Internet site...
  • Moral Atomic Bomb

    02/09/2006 1:27:39 PM PST · by dervish · 27 replies · 1,742+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/9/06 | Bernard-Henri Levy
    ...it is hard not to see that insidious forces have brought these drawings to the attention of the Muslim masses... this calculated offense (calculated, mind you, by the organizers of the distribution of the cartoons), it is hard not to link this blasphemy to a new planetary configuration, itself determined by three recent and major events. The diversionary tactic of a Syria which we never saw so concerned over religious matters... 'snip' The hardening of Iran's Islamic Republic, ready to make all kinds of theological concessions (including a grand historic alliance of Shiites and Sunnis, which experts have been telling...