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It seems like you have something really useful to say, some additional perspective that I'd love to hear. Unfortunately all you wrote were non-specific and inf
by pchristensen 17y ago
It seems like you have something really useful to say, some additional perspective that I'd love to hear. Unfortunately all you wrote were non-specific and inflammatory criticism.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoSorry so terse. It's just when I think of Soviet tanks rolling through Checkoslavakia, or the Peacekeeper missile debates and protests of the 80s, or the almost continual bush wars in Africa, or the domino theory, or the struggles in Latin America, or the demonstrations and marches against communism, or Lysenkoism -- the issues go on and on. Over the past week I have read about a dozen articles about the Berlin wall falling. Each of them made a completely different argument for why it fell! And each were credible and well-sourced! So when the author just threw out the analogy of other countries as voters -- as if the world operated like some giant election -- I simply had enough and bailed out. It's a great topic for an article, but if I let the author get away with an oversimplification half-way through I have little confidence that it's going to end up anywhere worth going. Kind of like building a house on the sand. But I was wrong to be so terse here. Sorry about that. If I had something to say, I should have taken the time to explain myself.