Posted by zeugma on March 5, 2006, at 10:17:12
In reply to Re: 5 » Gabbix2, posted by Tamar on March 5, 2006, at 8:52:41
My chief interest is in the question of what it might take to be able to critique US foreign policy without eliciting outrage. I am often astonished at how strongly people feel about it. But then, I regularly critique the foreign policy of my own government, so maybe I just don’t understand how it feels to support my country’s foreign policy wholeheartedly …>>
I am a U.S. citizen, and it seems fundamental to my sense of being one that critiques of its foreign policy be as free as possible (right of free speech). It outrages me that such critiques be out of bounds. It is not a matter of my supporting or rejecting a given aspect of U.S. foreign policy, but the sense of respect that I have for the laws and way of life of this country.
-z
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