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• Saturday, November 22, 2008 03:46 PM

  @RMP

  With such a complete and insightful answer to your own question, you don’t leave me much to comment on. In addition to all the reasons you sighted, for some there is also guilt that they let the Iraq invasion happen and then allowed GWB to be reelected followed by the torture which started on his first term.

  I guess I had thought of their feelings of liability over the 2004 election, because I read the NYT and they have been extremely defensive as to why they sat on the FISA wiretapping until after the election. I hadn't thought of the guilt/shame angle. Perhaps they are ashamed of what they did or feel bad about it? It's possible, but they seem too angry and (self-)righteous about it when they talk. Maybe that's an image or an act? I would hate to think we get bad press because our press can't stand themselves.

  I've been feeling we need our own network of think tanks. And one of the purposes would have to be community dissemination. I did notice that when Glenn gave the plight of the Bosnian-Algerian prisoners just the right touch, it spread and no one ignored the feeling of revulsion. (Sorry for the stream of consciousness, I don't know what this para has to do with the first one, I thought of it while I was writing the first one).

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