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Tuesday 3 December 2002
 


They'll have to think again about the Quiet American

I happen to like moral clarity myself, but I can appreciate that for some tastes Bush's habit of dividing the world into "good" and "evil" and using these terms non-ironically might seem a little simplistic. But it's nowhere near as simplistic as dividing the world into "I'm right" and "you're stupid".

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The American is still quiet but the Euro-Canadians get noisier in proportion to their impotence. American naivety transformed Japan and Germany. Anglo-French worldliness gave us Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and thereby September 11. If it takes centuries of "experience" in the region to invent Pakistan, then how much worse can a blundering Yank moron do?

[Mark Steyn in the Telegraph by way of Arts and Letters]

Gore Vidal: stick to history and the perspective hindsight gives you.
11:16:56 PM    comment []



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