conspiratorial thinking and the presidential election of 2004

[Jon Ford]

Michael--
I'm not sure the Arab mind is so much less evolved, magic-thinking oriented, 
and prone to conspiracy-theory  than the mind-sets of Christians and Jews, 
but you certainly have right to your beliefs on that score. However, for  
various reasons I fully agree with the following comment from your letter to 
byron:

>one would have to be INSANE to believe that Americans
>could invade an Arab country and contrive to make
>the locals adopt and implement a western-style
>democratic polity over night.
>
I also hope as you do  that the failure of the entire Iraq enterprize leads 
to defeat of Bush in 2004. If the election were held today, he would win by 
a landslide, even in California, according to latest polls. However, the 
same was true with Bush senior right after the "triumph" of the Gulf War, 
which was soon forgotten after the increasing spread of what looks in 
retrospect like a rather mild recession. What we're looking at now is more 
like a world-wide crash, or at least a super recession that will last for 
years, far beyond 2004.
Jon







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