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Rick on "Iraq Dialog"

Rick — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 02:49:44 +0100

There is little substance to your debate -- just rhetoric. You spend all your time defining things instead of looking at the way things are. The way things are to you are not what they appear to millions of other people who are other than you.

BenTrem on "Iraq Dialog"

BenTrem — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:08:17 +0000

What more profound response than deafening silence? Some, of course, can ignore all criteria and carry on. That's what I've seen for 3 decades: the "do-gooders" doing hardly any good at all, but brilliantly maintaining their postures. http://www.livejournal.com/users/hfx_ben/ p.s. rather impressive as a 1st post; more impressive still is that you've persisted despite the passive-agressive contempt. Message was edited by: HfxBen

Iraq Dialog,

ronr327 — Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000

CHOICES HUBRIS: In Greek tragedy, the overweening pride of those who believe the Gods are with them. Corollary: Those whom the Gods would bring low, they first raise up. 1. In the wake of Americas 60s turbulence, David Halberstam published The Best and the Brightest. The reference was to the extraordinary group of young (mostly) men and women John Kennedy gathered about him in forming his new administration. Intelligent, well-educated, and successful in life, possessed of contagious energy and infectious self-confidence, they breathed an air that no problem might be beyond their abilities. Dedicated and graced with talent, they could but succeed. Read the rest of this post...