If "many diplomats at the UN assume they are being bugged," the only dirty trick here is that someone in the European camp is undermining the Rumsfeld/Rice...
I agree with Gary's sentiment that this is a "good" ie. a communicationalist phenomenon. It is good that the Powers are busy "playing games" it is what they...
Ousting Saddam requires dissolving the state (i.e., brutal regime) that has not only retarded the social learning processes necessary for various levels of...
This is from today's NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/opinion/07KRUG.html?th regards ali __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!?...
I disagree with Ulf Bernitz et al. that B:... there is no justification under international law for the use of military force against Iraq.... G: The U.S. can...
Ali, you could have shown better editorial judgment with your NYTimes Op-Ed suggestion today under the subject line "Re: Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear."...
Gary, This is an extraordinarily powerful and persuasive statement. Is there a plan to haul Hussein before the International War Tribunals Court? If Hussein is...
Thanks Gary, Actually I thought of posting the Walzer article but shied away for the fear of burdening the list with my own suggestive postings. While reading...
Gary May be you would like this more http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,910034,00.html As far I am concerned I can only learn from these the basic...
More on the issue of federalism for Iraq, from a political scientist at the University of Chicago: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=scholar&s=levy022703 ... ...
Yes, Ali, I like Freedland's article *very* much--- ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,910034,00.html ... highlights MANY important themes...
G> ... I see the basic enrichment of modernity in good articles, Freedman's for example. In "Good intellectual practice," that should be "Freedland's". Now, I...
Gary & List: What use is philosophy? I have to fend this question regularly. Recently I have wanted to say "check out the Habermas list @Yahoo :- ). Our...
Matt, Thanks for your reflections; all of your non-quoted reflections, I'm in solidarity with. Sorry I'm only commenting on a few points. ... G: But pollsters...
Gary, thanks for the response. I can't at present reply in detail. I will do so tomorrow. Except to say the only reason I can find to be sustainable in terms...
Matt, I think I responded insensitively (though you give no hint today of having perceived that). I would like to follow up before you reply, in terms of the...
Please let me know if you would prefer that postings give less attention to the Iraq issue and that I or others restrain ourselves unless we have something to...
...one cannot argue credibly that the relationship between moral and legal claims is unimportant; OR that this conflict is NOT an important part of the present...
Matt, I said earlier today that I want to follow up on my Monday reply. I wish that I could just revise it, but these things are uneditable. By replying too...
... but the problem is, there is no way out of it. So said Solon in the 6th century BC. This was prior to the great ancient experiment in democracy in Athens...
Tommy, [I thought of saying] I think the French and the Germans and the Russians are posturing in defence of the enlightenment. Only the Allied axis are...
Looks like the "red-green" coalition hasn't worked for Germany. So, Chancellor Schroeder introduced a new program for reform today. It goes the way of U.S....
Beginning, re: Tommy, Matt, "tyranny is [not] a very pretty position".... Tommy: My country is closely allied with the US yet opposition here to this war...
An excellent, thought-provoking article... "If the U.N. Were Being Created Today . . ." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/arts/15FORU.html is also available...
Gary/List, Thanks to everyone for the links List members have been contributing. It has really broadened my understanding of the U.N/Iraq crsis. Some of my...
Gary, Before bunkering down on the pro/anti-Iraq discussion, I thought one more roll of the dice :-). Anyway, your following "empathetic" post deserves a...
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