Word: higonnetã
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...Higonnet??s accusation that conservatives are actively trying to crush and humiliate the Palestinians is just confusing. Was he asleep when conservatives and, indeed, Americans of all political stripes, supported the Oslo process and then mourned its death? Conservatives nowadays do not want to crush the Palestinians but to avoid rewarding terrorism and thereby encourage more...
...Deal and Jimmy Carter and the bad America of President Bush. What does bad America want? “War, cheap oil, and, incidentally, the crushing and total humiliation of the Palestinians; in a word imperial domination in its purest form.” In Higonnet??s bad America “pluralism is a mask for special interests, a Christian America (Ashcroft), bursting with revolvers (Cheney), arrogant (Rumsfeld), imperial (William Kristol), racist (Trent Lott), opportunist (Condi Rice), partisan (Karl Rove), the America of spying and denunciation (Poindexter).” Europe, he says...
Most of the moral arrogance here is typical of the cant Europeans incessantly write about the United States. Yet two of Higonnet??s outrageous assertions deserve particular attention...
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