[Vision2020] Phil Nisbet's Misunderstandings

[Pat Kraut]

I know this is a late response but I have had a busy week...Nick do you
think that this person could be reading the news and know that if he says
this it will be accepted by many as truth whether it is or not? Do you not
think in any form that he could be lying? Even Saddam has played the
'torture' card now! Our press had made this such a great hot item for more
lies that I find it hard to believe it when someone claims 'torture'.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Gier" <ngier at uidaho.edu>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:19 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Phil Nisbet's Misunderstandings


Greetings:

At the end of my response to Phil's critique of my "The Deceptions of War,"
I bemoaned the fact that Americans generally cannot have meaningful debate
on fundamental issues.  One columnist has phrased this "The End of
Persuasion."  I blame it on the results of a pervasive anti-intellectual
culture that has finally fulfilled H. L. Menchen's prophecy that ignorant
and misinformed Americans would one day have a president in their own image.

Phil, I don't know how you could have read this as including you, the
smartest and best informed Republican that I know.  But I do know for sure
that I do not want to discuss religion with you any more, and if you keep
calling my responses "screeds," then I may just decide not engage you in
discussion at all.

This just in from today's headlines: Egyptian prisoner admits that he lied
about Iraqi-Al Qaeda connections because he was tortured, and Britain
announced that any evidence derived from torture will not be admissible in
their courts.

Nick Gier


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