Re: Brin: Re: Bush claim revives al-Jazeera bombing fears

2005-11-25 Thread Gary Denton
The fact that the community the Air Force Academy is located in is now also the training center for the new religious right bend on dominating American politics is also worrying. http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist.html http://www.harpers.org/FeelingTheHate.html On 11/25/05, David Brin <[EMAI

Re: Brin: Re: Bush claim revives al-Jazeera bombing fears

2005-11-25 Thread Gary Denton
I often think of Scudder these days. In reading *Why Hitler Came to Power* by Theodore Abel, a sociological study based on 600 autobiographies of members of the Nazi party published in 1938, I found differences between Germany in '35 and USA in 2005. Bush isn't quite as idealized as Germany's per

Re: Brin: Re: Bush claim revives al-Jazeera bombing fears

2005-11-25 Thread David Brin
Heinlein was no leftist, any more than he was a right-winger. He was pro-future, pro-individualist. He often mentions a preference for market solutions to problems... but has nothing against a compassionate and rich society providing basic needs in a socialist manner. See BEYOND THIS HORIZON. T

Re: Brin: Re: Bush claim revives al-Jazeera bombing fears

2005-11-25 Thread Max Battcher
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: Purportedly, the terrorists hate us for our freedoms. But we have no problem doing to ourselves what terrorist would not be able to do, and doing unto innocent Moslems what we fear they might do to us. It seems that I am reading "The Sound of His

Brin: Re: Bush claim revives al-Jazeera bombing fears

2005-11-25 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Robert Seeberger wrote: > >>> Purportedly, the terrorists hate us for our freedoms. But we have >>> no problem doing to ourselves what terrorist would not be able >>> to do, and doing unto innocent Moslems what we fear they >>> might do to us. >> >> It seems that I am reading "The Sound of His Wing