For The Reality Based Community
http://www.indi.ca/2008/07/for-the-reality-based-community/ (www.indi.ca)
published: 2008-07-02 08:15:14 ( 4 months ago )fetched: 2008-07-02 09:15:41 ( 4 months ago )
My daily read is Andrew Sullivan and, through him, the impressive staff of bloggers that The Atlantic magazine has built up. That also includes writers like Matt Yglesias. Today he had an interesting bit which I think captures the political hysteria and posturing surrounding the whole terrorism issue. The American terrorism issue has long been treated as an ideological issue when it's really a policy one. Nobody supports terrorism, we just differ about what to do about it. However ideologues try to phrase it as an 'us or them' thing without ever getting to the [ ... ]
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