There's something about your response that suggests that you may not have caught the (admittedly subtle) reference that the author was making to our base at Guantanamo Bay, and our recent activities there.
It's not that we're doing anything new, or different. (And the perception that we're not is part of the problem.)
_This_ is the problem:
To multiply the impact of this bold example, we could find people from all over the world -- especially people from places where tyranny is rampant and democracy is only a vague, foreign word -- and invite them to come and live for a time in our model island outpost. There our guests would see and experience our American values firsthand.
Word of this experience would spread to their countrymen and their homelands: This is what America is really like. This is what America is all about. No amount of rhetoric on behalf of freedom and democracy could compete with the message such an outpost would provide.
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branchandroot
Re: meh, I dunno.
Date: 20 February 2005 21:03 (UTC)OH no, not again. :(
Date: 21 February 2005 11:22 (UTC)Re: OH no, not again. :(
Date: 21 February 2005 12:20 (UTC)_This_ is the problem:
To multiply the impact of this bold example, we could find people from all over the world -- especially people from places where tyranny is rampant and democracy is only a vague, foreign word -- and invite them to come and live for a time in our model island outpost. There our guests would see and experience our American values firsthand.
Word of this experience would spread to their countrymen and their homelands: This is what America is really like. This is what America is all about. No amount of rhetoric on behalf of freedom and democracy could compete with the message such an outpost would provide.