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Post #11,138
by CRConrad
10/1/01 5:17:33 PM
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New Uh, so you would promote "American Values"...
[Gerard on Saudi Arabia and Egypt:] Both have, in my opinion, allowed their anti-Western press free reign to rake us over the coals simply to deflect opposition to their own regimes.
...by reigning in the (albeit "anti-Western", apparently still "free") press?

Can't say I see how that would work, really...
   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #11,212
by gtall
10/2/01 8:35:07 AM
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New Re: Uh, so you would promote "American Values"...
"...by reigning in the (albeit "anti-Western", apparently still "free") press?
"

That wasn't really my point (I didn't express it very well). My point was rather that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are not really our friends if, being authoritarian, they allow us to be the whipping boy for their failed policies. If those regimes were replaced by radical Muslim regimes, from the press vantage point I don't know that we'd really notice the difference.

Gerard Allwein
Post #11,250
by CRConrad
10/2/01 11:40:31 AM
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New OK, got it, now. Thanks for the clariff.
Post #11,302
by bluke
10/2/01 3:54:46 PM
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New Their press is not free
Those papers that are blasting the US are all government papers.
     Christopher Hitchens weighs in - (marlowe) - (14) - Oct. 1, 2001, 03:39:17 PM EDT
         Re: Christopher Hitchens weighs in - (gtall) - (13) - Oct. 1, 2001, 04:30:06 PM EDT
             No, democracy isn't for everyone. - (marlowe) - (4) - Oct. 1, 2001, 04:55:23 PM EDT
                 Re: No, democracy isn't for everyone. - (gtall) - (3) - Oct. 2, 2001, 08:56:29 AM EDT
                     You said it yourself: "[...]some muslim idiot[...]" - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2001, 09:09:27 AM EDT
                         Re: You said it yourself: "[...]some muslim idiot[...]" - (gtall) - Oct. 2, 2001, 11:02:01 AM EDT
                     IMO - that IS the spectre now afloat - (Ashton) - Oct. 2, 2001, 05:44:47 PM EDT
             Uh, so you would promote "American Values"... - (CRConrad) - (3) - Oct. 1, 2001, 05:17:33 PM EDT
                 Re: Uh, so you would promote "American Values"... - (gtall) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2001, 08:35:07 AM EDT
                     OK, got it, now. Thanks for the clariff. -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 2, 2001, 11:40:31 AM EDT
                 Their press is not free - (bluke) - Oct. 2, 2001, 03:54:46 PM EDT
             Methinks the subtlety now approaches that of 'Enigma' - (Ashton) - (3) - Oct. 1, 2001, 05:33:43 PM EDT
                 Re: Methinks the subtlety now approaches that of 'Enigma' - (gtall) - (2) - Oct. 2, 2001, 08:44:42 AM EDT
                     Way wrong? - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2001, 05:14:57 PM EDT
                         Re: Way wrong? - (gtall) - Oct. 3, 2001, 07:58:42 AM EDT

As you wish.
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