@ False Witness: Or the main danger might be allowing demagogic politicians to curtail our freedom and consolidate power into their own Cheneyesque hands by calling for extreme measures to combat an external danger that is relatively small.
I live in in NYC. Beside the world-class NYPL, the Brookyn PL, and the CUNY Library all will get the book to me in 3 or 4 days. I'll be walking over and picking it up on Tuesday.
That has a lovely review. I noticed that the Poet-formerly-known-as Sully had a trenchant (seems to be an appropriate, if not exact, word) comment lauding your prose.
Israel gains nothing in the discussion and the admission would likely lead to questions being raised about the origins of the program. Answers to such questions might be embarrassing to other countries that supplied technical and/or material assistance.
@ False Witness:
Stop torturing yourself, Sully. We're old enough to know that unringing the bell ain't easy.
http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html
@ False Witness: Or the main danger might be allowing demagogic politicians to curtail our freedom and consolidate power into their own Cheneyesque hands by calling for extreme measures to combat an external danger that is relatively small.
CK MacLeod wrote:
My tadpole is home for his mother's b'day and found your Dialogue with John post open on the screen.
He was impressed with the quality of your thought and writing.
(you're getting flattery, CK, not kickbacks. keep rolling them posters.)
@ CK MacLeod:
Poor deluded Tsar.
I live in in NYC. Beside the world-class NYPL, the Brookyn PL, and the CUNY Library all will get the book to me in 3 or 4 days. I'll be walking over and picking it up on Tuesday.
Your conscience is on its own, sadly.
@ CK MacLeod:
That has a lovely review. I noticed that the Poet-formerly-known-as Sully had a trenchant (seems to be an appropriate, if not exact, word) comment lauding your prose.
Have ordered the book.
@ CK MacLeod:
Unfamiliar with Stone. Where should I look?
@ narciso:
how about it might have been the unification of Germany that caused the ruckus?
@ CK MacLeod:
Israel gains nothing in the discussion and the admission would likely lead to questions being raised about the origins of the program. Answers to such questions might be embarrassing to other countries that supplied technical and/or material assistance.