Re: quotation du jour

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I got the quote from today's news summary in SLATE magazine. I don't remember if it's from the Washington POST or the New York TIMES. 
-- Jim

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	From: Kenneth Campbell [mailto:kkc@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
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	Jim wrote:
	
	>"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal
	>affairs of Iraq."
	>-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
	
	Great quote, sir.
	
	Americans are never foreign in their own eyes any more. Even their
	"leaders of foreign policy" are never foreign.
	
	They are always "right there"... wherever they are when they vote to
	save the world from tyranny when they vote. (Under 45% vote, right?)
	
	Originally, the U.S. policy (G. Washington) was to shun the world for
	fear of accepting their politics... now that the U.S. is Rome and
	powerful and the policy is to... well... shun the world for fear of
	accepting their politics...
	
	Ken.
	
	--
	As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
	In both instances, there's a twilight where everything
	remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that
	we must be aware of change in the air, however slight,
	lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
	          -- William O. Douglas