<div>All right, I give up. What's a "communitarian"?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Stuart Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu">slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:36:07PM -0500, C. G. Estabrook wrote:<br>> Search Etzioni's websites, I suppose. He's been saying this nonsense for a<br>
> while. Doug just got hit with some of it. I'll ask him if you like.<br><br>Wow. Do you think Amitai Etzioni means to be serious here??<br>The language is so pat ["everyone is entitled but..."],<br>it sounds as though he's setting up a straw man<br>
for parody. This could come from the Onion.<br><br>> Stuart Levy wrote:<br>>> Wow -- love this bit: "everyone is entitled to human rights, but..."<br>>> Where are the web sites referred to? "we provide a blow by blow response,<br>
>> here" etc.?<br>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:18:26PM -0500, C. G. Estabrook wrote:<br>>>> {Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer treats some academic dreck with<br>>>> the degree of respect it deserves. --CGE}<br>
>>><br>>>><br>>>> [I always hated this communitarian shit, but this takes the cake. For<br>>>> some reason this asshole added me to his email list.]<br>>>><br>>>> From: Amitai Etzioni <<a href="mailto:icps@GWU.EDU">icps@GWU.EDU</a>><br>
>>> Date: March 30, 2010 5:03:51 PM EDT<br>>>> To: <a href="mailto:COMNET@HERMES.GWU.EDU">COMNET@HERMES.GWU.EDU</a><br>>>> Subject: The case for drones. Comments please.<br>>>> Reply-To: Amitai Etzioni <<a href="mailto:icps@GWU.EDU">icps@GWU.EDU</a>><br>
>>><br>>>> Jane Mayer made the liberal case against drones in The New Yorker<br>>>> (October 26, 2009). We provide a blow by blow response here and discuss<br>>>> the issue on Talk of the Nation, here. Everyone is entitled to human<br>
>>> rights, but we cannot wait for terrorists to strike before we go after<br>>>> them. And, although little known, the US military has a carefully crafted<br>>>> procedure for determining which drone strikes are allowed and which would<br>
>>> cause too much collateral damage.<br>>>><br>>>> The onus for avoiding collateral damage altogether is on the terrorists.<br>>>> They have to stop exploiting their status as civilians, stop using<br>
>>> civilians as human shields, and homes--as headquarters, as locations to<br>>>> store ammunition and for snipers to ply their deadly trade. (For more,<br>>>> see Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy [Yale 2007] and<br>
>>> our website.)<br>>>> --<br>>>> Amitai Etzioni<br>>>> University Professor<br>>>> The George Washington University<br>>>> 1922 F St NW, Rm 413<br>>>> Washington, DC 20052<br>
>>> ph: 202.994.8190<br>>>> fax: 202.9941606<br></blockquote>
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