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Robert — (archived)

Thanks, man.

I don't know as how you need to find areas of disagreement. Or maybe it's a matter of redefining disagreement, from the bitterly partisan black-and-white definintion of "any opinion not 100% agreement with my own", to the shades-of-grey that recognizes that we're usually on the same side, on the same page, and we're actually wrangling over matters of degree.

I'll move on in a minute to Tom's snide comment below about how it's easy when the two parties agree on the "major issue", by which I assume he means Iraq. Iraq is a good illustration of polarizing rhetoric designed to prevent just the sort of discussion that I've been having with RNE. Accusing anyone who doesn't support Bush and "stay the course" of advocating "surrender" and "defeat" and "cut-n-run" is totally false and only prevents discussion of alternatives...alternatives which are very much a matter of degree, such as phased withdrawal and redeployment. We could all be working on the problem, if we didn't have to dodge the flak barrages that needlessly consume time and intellectual resources.

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