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Mon Jul-09-07 05:52 PM
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Reframe: being tough on terrorism = being "smart on terrorism" |
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Say that over and over = neocons are stupid on terrorism. It doesn't get more simple than that.
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Mon Jul-09-07 05:54 PM
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1. "bring smart on terrorism" = stop pissing off the rest of the world maybe |
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Mon Jul-09-07 05:56 PM
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Mon Jul-09-07 05:57 PM
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4. ROFL! In this anti-intellectual country? It'll merely be re-interpreted as "weak". |
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Edited on Mon Jul-09-07 05:58 PM by BlooInBloo
EDIT: The point being: in order for such a reframing to be practically useful, there would have to be a PRIOR reframing of *intelligence* as a GOOD thing. But if that prerequisite were done, there would be no need for the reframing you mention.
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Mon Jul-09-07 06:45 PM
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7. So being dumb is viewed by the public as a good thing? |
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I get your point but I take it to mean you are frustrated with our fickle populus.
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Mon Jul-09-07 06:47 PM
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8. Hell yes, and hell fucking yes, respectively. |
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Mon Jul-09-07 06:01 PM
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Sensible, Multilateral, American Response to Terrorism http://www.oregonpeaceworks.org/site/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=988&Itemid=82Yeah, dumb old sandnsea has been posting this periodically for several years.
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