[mburbank]

"If you wish to talk about our similarities that's great, but you do a serious disservice to the discussin I think."
-Kevin the Contradictory

Oh, boo hoo. You don't think it's great at all, you instead either pretend to think it's equivication, which is a convenient method of false marginilization that does 'serious disservice to the discussion' or you actually think it IS equivication which does serious disservice to your ability to discuss.

"But today, right now, observe the Westernized, liberal socities, and then observe the muslim world. on average, how is that working out for them?"

Today, right now, observe the body count of trying to enlighten them through invasion and occupation. I totally agree that westernized liberal government is better than any form of totalitarianism. I would suggest A.) That does not give us the right to try to force it through violence B.) so far the success of this tactic is debatable at very best and C.) The very idea that this is what we are doing is highly debatable. The administration is antagonistic to the results of several democratically elected regimes and very cozy with several totalitarian regimes. Should we arrive at a coherent, honest foreign policy, I would be more inclined to discuss the merits of using our army to encourage the adoption of our admittedly superior form of government.

"And I think it's still amazing that you have so much to say of the supposed ills of your own country, and yet so little of theirs. Perhaps a sense of perspective is too much to ask from you while in your Bush Rage, but it's never the less appropriate. "
-Kevin, his Keviness

Here we differ. As an American citizen in a democracy with the privilidge of the vote and free speech, I find being focused on holding our country to standards we profess to believe,( such as the rule of law) a perfectly appropriatte focus. I am aware you concider the state of your own country and feel no need to require you to balance your writtings with what you think we are doing wrong. I don't even think it stems from your obvious terror of the massive power liberal blogging boogeymen, which I think you suffer from, but hardly to the point of blindness.

How about this. You write about your concerns, I'll write about mine, and we can be critical about each other. You go on thinking that the reason I write about hat I want to write about instead of what you want to write about is due to Bush rage blindness. I'll assume that you write about what you write about because they are the subjects you find most compelling. You wield your ability to gaze into my soul and I'll continue to asssume that your beliefs are the product of a reasoned, intelligent thought process that I happen to disagree with, and a dash of hippiephobia.