<div>Hmmm...a pearl. Interesting metaphor. So this is a GOOD thing, right?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.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">American liberalism is a closed oyster into which a mere grain of sand - the Wikileaks documents - has penetrated. Here we see that echt liberal Frank Rich, equal to the challenge, beginning the process of covering the offending element with a first layer of nacre, by the same living process as is used in the secretion of the mother of pearl covering that lines liberalism's shell...<br>
<br>Behold - a pearl!<br><br> Kiss This War Goodbye<br> By FRANK RICH<br> Published: July 31, 2010<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=2&hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=2&hp</a>
<div class="im"><br><br><br>On 8/1/10 11:37 AM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:<br></div></blockquote>
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<div class="h5"><br><br>“The lesson; no, the message; no, um, the takeaway of the leaked documents is<br>not: if only they knew how badly it's going, how hard it's going to be, then the<br>administration would bring an end to the conflict. Rather, the takeaway; no, the<br>
message is that even knowing how badly the war goes, they persist. The lesson is<br>not the Administration's blindness, but its dogged intransigence, its total<br>commitment to the endeavor, regardless of the means or outcome, regardless of<br>
the possibility of reward, regardless of the cost, regardless of suffering,<br>regardless of sense and duration. The United States has an institutional<br>commitment to the occupation of Afghanistan. It can't be argued out of it.”*[7]*<br>
*<br>*<br>One of the best reflections about Wiki-Leaks and related matters. See<br><br><a href="http://www.zcommunications.org/revealing-moments-by-paul-street" target="_blank">http://www.zcommunications.org/revealing-moments-by-paul-street</a></div>
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