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GIVEN WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGNi, LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET. A GERMAN POET WHOxHr
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RECEIVEDHT TOUCHING LETTERS FROM A YOUNG MAN WHO WONDERED IF
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THE POLITICAL L IT ISjF AN EXQUISITE LITTLE BOOK. THE IDEA OF WAS TO SEE IF WE COULD DO THIS AGAIN SO FOR EXAMPLE, YOU WILL BE THRILLED TOfa HEAR JESSE...
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THE BERLIN WALL AND THE REASON WHY I TAKE HIM AS AN
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EXEMPLARY CASE IS THAT HE IS At( MAN WHO ORGANIZED A MASSIVE NATIONAL AND CIVIC RESISTANCE, COMPLETELY NONVIOLENTLY AND COMPLETELY SUCCESSFULLY JUST...
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UNFETTERED COMPLETELY UNFETTERED. WE SHALL -- WELL, HE SAID WITH A SLIGHT LAUGH, THERE IS ONE THING THAT IS NOT DONE, SO PORTRAYAL OF THE LEADER WILL...
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COLORFUL CUBAN FILMS IN THE EARLYu '60s, AT A TIME WHENco CUBA WAS CONSIDERED A VERY EXCITING PLACE. NOT JUST ON THE LEFT.co AND WHERE A LARGE NUMBER...
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THINK THAT HOLLYWOOD COULDq BE MUCH HELP BY THE WAY >> LET ME GO BACK TO YOURNi WORDS. YOU CONCLUDE YOUR BOOK BY SAYING THIS MAY SUM RIDES THE ESSENCE...
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IRONICt( SELF CRITICISM.i] THIS WOULD MEAN REALLY DECIDING TO LEARN FROM HISTORY RATHER THAN INVOKING IT. >> THAT'S NOT BAD. >> THENi MESSAGE IS TO TRY...
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THAT MIGHT STILL MEAN THAT YOU ARE
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RIGHT.q IN FACTxD, THAT LONLINESS OFTEN MAKES PEOPLE WONDER, PERHAPS OUST MODESTY, THEY FEEL IF I FEEL THIS WAY AND EVERYONE ELSE DOESN'T, MAYBE I'M...
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BOOK BUT
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IF WHO ISNi YOUNG AND SMOKE, THEY SHOULD STOP NOWco
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IF THEY COULD. >> WOULD YOU IF COULD YOU? >> I THANK I MEANT TO DO IT
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| 00:07:48 |
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AND SOME WRITERS I THINK HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH ALCOHOL AND NICOTINE THAT'S CREATIVE DESTRUCTION. BUT IT IS SOMEHOWx IT IS PART OF ONE'S CURVE...
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WE MUSTN'T GET TOO DEPRESSING ON A
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SUNDAY MORNING. IT UP, DEFINITELY DON'T. >> Caller: GOOD MORNING. I HAVE ANi SON WHO I SPENT AN HOURjF&C= THE PHONE WITH YESTERDAY ARGUING ABOUT WHAT'S...
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NO ONE HAS ANY ETHICS ANYMORE.w3 AND THAT EVIL IS GOING TO BEAT GOOD, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE TRY, ALTHOUGH HE'S VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF FIGHTING INJUSTICE...
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| 00:09:26 |
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BUT I HAVE FOUND A CERTAIN SENSE OF EXHILARATION ON SEPTEMBER 11th, WHICH HAS NOT LEFTco ME -- NOW HERE IF YOU WANT IT IS THEN!W/ ENEMY IN ABSOLUTELY...
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| 00:13:20 |
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MUCH. I WAS WONDERING HOW YOU LOOK ON MR. CLINTON'S ADD MINUTE STAYING BEING SOMEWHAT ASHEEP -- ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL WITH REGARD TO BIN LADEN.co IT...
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FIRST TIME BIN LADEN HASNi STRUCK. >> INDEED >> Caller: WHAT DO YOU THINK
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WAS HIS
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FAULT? IN MY BOOK ABOUT MR. CLINTON. WHICH THEe1 BOOK IS CALLED NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO IN CASE YOU WONDER WHAT I THINK ABOUT HIM IN GENTLEMEN. WHAT...
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HE DID ONE OFjF THE WORST
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n THINGS ANY PRESIDENT HAS EVER DONE, HE USED AMERICAN CRUISE MISSILES IN AxD COVERT AND SURREPTITIOUS DECISION THAT WAS TAKEN AGAINST HIM BY MOST OF...
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| 00:15:49 |
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NOT WRITE A BOOK RECENTLY ABOUT
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| 00:15:51 |
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HENRY KISSINGER? >> I D THANKS FOR EVERYONE MENTIONING ALL MY OTHER BOOKS. I'M THRILLED. THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER, CAN AND SHOULD BE BROUGHT WITHIN...
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| 00:16:05 |
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HOW MANY BOOKS HAVE YOU WRITTEN? >>
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IN MY LIFE ABOUT 12 OR SO, 12 13. ACTUALLY BASED ON -- I DON'T
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| 00:16:14 |
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KNOW. AND SOME OF THEM PAMPHLETS REALLY, RATHER THAN BOOKS. FULL-LENGTH BOOKS, ABOUT THREE. COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS OR SHORT SUB BOOKS MAYBE ABOUT ANOTHER...
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| 00:16:26 |
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SURE. I GUESS
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| 00:16:29 |
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SUCH A HUGE SUBJECT AND THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT ONE WOULD LIKE TO SAY AND TIME IS SO SHORT, BUT I GUESS BRIEFLY IN ANSWER TO DANIEL PIPES' QUESTION...
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| 00:16:45 |
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STRUGGLE BETWEEN LABOR AND
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PEOPLE IN POWER AND IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT RERIDGEON, WHAT NATIONALITY, WHAT AGE, YOU KNOW, WHAT TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY. IT IS ALWAYS THERE. ...
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| 00:18:02 |
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PEOPLE WHO DID IT THOUGHT HIGHLY ENOUGH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AT LEAST TO HAVE THE GRACE TO LIE TO THEM ABOUT THIS. IT IS TRUE THAT SUCH A MANUAL...
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| 00:20:41 |
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THE THIRD WORLD. HE HAS DONE EXPLOITATION OF LABOR, RAPE OF NATURAL
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| 00:20:47 |
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RESOURCES REFUGEES, MY GRANTS, WAR, FIVE OR SIX MAJOR ALBUMS OF WORK. AND HE IS NOW THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S ENVOY, AMBASSADOR. FOR THE ERADIATION...
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| 00:21:54 |
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TOWN. THAT BORDER IS VERY
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WOBBLY LINE DRAWN AS YOU KNOW. AND IT IS FULL OF AFGHAN
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| 00:22:03 |
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REFUGEES. VERY TENSE ATMOSPHERE AT THE MOMENT. >>
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| 00:22:05 |
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AND YOU WENT, IS IT, AT OXFORD? HOW MANY COLLEGES COMPRISE OXFORD? >> I THINK IT IS ABOUT 23. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CAMPUS AS SUCH. SO JUST AROUND...
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| 00:22:28 |
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CITY. -- MEDIEVAL CITY. IT IS ABOUT 2000 WALLED IN AND ENCLOSED BUILDINGS. EACH OF THEMSELF GOVERNING. SO
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| 00:22:37 |
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YOU CAN'T -- THERE IS NO SUCH PLACE AS OXFORD UNIVERSITY REALLY. IT IS A MYSTERY. WE USED TO LAUGH IT WAS A FAVORITE THING, JOKE, ABOUT AMERICAN TOURISTS...
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| 00:23:23 |
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THE OXFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUST TO MAKE YOU FEEL
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| 00:23:27 |
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AT HOME THE OTHER
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NIGHT AND I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE
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YOUR WRIGHTING ESPECIALLY IN VANITY FAIR. >> THANK YOU. >> Caller: AND I
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| 00:23:36 |
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DO WONDER A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE
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| 00:23:38 |
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CURRENT CRISIS, WHETHER --
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| 00:23:40 |
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I VERY MUCH AGREE THIS IS AN ISSUE OF THE SECULAR
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| 00:23:43 |
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EN LIGHTENMENT VERSUS VARIOUS SORTS OF FUNDAMENTALISM AND I'M WONDERING AGAINST THAT BACKGROUND, WHETHER AT LEAST PART OF THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE WIDESPREAD...
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| 00:23:55 |
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THE
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| 00:23:56 |
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ROLE OF MORE LEADERSHIP, THAT PRESIDENT BUSH IS TRYING TO GIVE LEADERSHIP. THE U.S. POLICIES IN SOUTH AMERICA, LATIN AMERICA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE...
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| 00:24:53 |
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I WOULD HOPE THAT O-- TO HAVE MADE THAT LIST BY NOW. IF I DIDN'T MAKE IT, I WOULD FEEL BAD AND IF I WAS TOLD I WAS ON THE TOP 10 I WOULD FEEL LIKE I...
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| 00:26:47 |
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FIELD, WHICH WAS PSYCHIATRY. IN THE RATIO OF PSYCHIATRY TO POLITICS. AND I MET HIM WHEN I WAS ABOUT -- MUST HAVE BEEN 17, 18 AT
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| 00:26:57 |
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A MEETING SINCE WE WERE STAYING IN THE OLD TOWN, IN OXFORD TOWN HALL, IT WAS A RALLY AGAINST AT TROSHS WAR IN VIETNAM. AND I ASKED A QUESTION TO SOME...
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| 00:28:28 |
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THE AL-JAZEERA NETWORK MIGHT BE LIKE AND I'M WONDERING ABOUT ITS FUNDING IN ECONOMICS AND I'M WONDERING ABOUT THE BALANCE THAT CNN MAY OR MAY NOT...
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| 00:29:45 |
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THE. NOTHING SUR HE
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| 00:29:48 |
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TISHS. I SAW A VERY INTERESTING DISCUSSION BY ROBERT PHYSICAL BEING, AND SOME OTHER PARTICIPANTS. I THINK THIS WAS ACTUALLY ON THE BBC WORLD CHANNEL,...
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| 00:31:12 |
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HAD BEEN ATTACKED GENERALLY OVERSEAS. MY QUESTION IS, DO YOU RECON
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| 00:31:16 |
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THAT IT WILL ALWAYS BE A PEARL HARBOR-TYPE OF ACTION, WORLD TRADE CENTER KIND OF ACTION THAT IS REQUIRED IN FUTURE TO AROUSE THIS COUNTRY TO REALLY ADDRESS...
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| 00:31:51 |
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BE JUST AT THAT POINT THAT ANOTHER ALL OF WOUND IS INFLICTED BY COVERT ENEMIES. >> YEAH, DO I WORRY ABOUT THAT. I ALSO SAY IN THAT PIECE THAT I THINK...
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| 00:32:19 |
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IN THE PACIFIC WHERE THE EM PIERS WERE GOING TO CLASH AND PROBABLY THE FIRST CLASH WOULD BE NAVAL. THE JAPANESE FOUND A BRILLIANT WAY OF FINESSING THAT...
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| 00:34:08 |
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ONE THING, I DON'T THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO BUILD ON THAT SITE. I'M NOT A RELIGIOUS PERSON. I DON'T BELIEVE PARTICULARLY IN THE SANCTITY
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| 00:34:24 |
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REMAINS. I I THINK EVERYONE HAS A NATURAL AVULSION AGAINST DESECRATION. THIS IS THE YOUNG -- THE UNBURIED BODIES IN THE STREETS. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN...
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| 00:35:01 |
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AS I COMPARE THE STATUS OF PAKISTAN PRESEPTEMBER
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| 00:35:06 |
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11th AND NOW, I WOULD
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| 00:35:07 |
Caller, -
LIKE YOUR OPINION, ESPECIALLY WHEN PAKISTAN USED TO BE A SUPPORTER OF THE TALIBAN AND HAD DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE TALIBAN, WAS STATE SPONSORING...
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| 00:36:10 |
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AND AL-QAEDA AND THOSE WHO HARBOR THEM. THEY HAVE SPONSORED, INCUBATED AND PAID FOR, ARMED, HELPED, AND TRAINED THEM. AND INSTALLED THEM, RIVETED UPON...
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| 00:38:12 |
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AM I ON? THANK YOU C-SPAN. MR. HITCHENS, BRIAN LAMB IS NOT THERE THIS MORNING, ARE YOU STILL A SOCIALIST? >> I THINK I SAY THIS IN THE BOOK, 20 YEARS...
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| 00:38:27 |
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SHOW, SINCE IT STARTED AND BRIAN ALWAYS USED TO ASK ME THIS
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| 00:38:31 |
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LITTLE
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| 00:38:32 |
Caller, -
POLITE INCREDULITY, YOU KNOW? YOU SAID YOU ARE A SOCIALIST AND THEN BECAME A HABIT AND HE SAID WELL, BY THE WAY, I HAVEN'T CHECKED LATELY, ARE YOU...
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| 00:38:41 |
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SURE. I WOULD NEVER BE PUSHED OFF. AND I KNEW THE ONE DAY HE THOUGHT I'LL ASK HIM AND HE'LL SAY NO, I RETHOUGHT IT AND THEN I STARTED TO SAY I WON'T...
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| 00:40:16 |
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THE MUSLIM WORLD, PARTICULARLY THEIR MUSLIM WORLD. THE MOST SALIENT EXAMPLE WOULD BE MOST OF THE WRITING OF THE ANCIENT GREEK FLOSS
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| 00:40:25 |
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FURS WAS COMPLETELY LOST TO THE WEST FOR MANY CENTURIES AND WAS SUBSTANTIALLY OBLITERATED BY CHRISTIANITY WHICH DIDN'T WANT IT TO BE THOUGHT THAT THERE...
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| 00:41:29 |
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JUDAH, ACTUALLY. THE
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| 00:41:31 |
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AL-QAEDA TALIBAN WOULD MAKE THAT KIND OF MUSLIM CULTURAL LIFE IMPOSSIBLE. AND REMEMBER BEFORE THEY BLEW UP THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, THEY USED HEAVY ARTILLERY...
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| 00:42:21 |
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WHICH AL-QAEDA CALLED UNTIL -- CALLED IN THEIR WATER LOO? >> IF I GOT THE QUESTION RIGHT, I THINK THE QUESTION IS ASKING WAS THIS SOME KIND OF A TRAP?...
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| 00:42:49 |
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TRUE. I WOULDN'T THINK IT WOULD MATTER. EXCUSE ME. I'M SORRY FOR MY THROAT THIS MORNING. IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR, I WAS VERY PROUD TO SAY I WAS ASKED BY...
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| 00:45:06 |
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DOCTRINE ON US AND TAKEN
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| 00:45:07 |
Caller, -
APART OUR WAY OF THOUGHT THAT -- OF FREE-SPEAKING INDIVIDUALS HERE IN AMERICA. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? >> I THINK I -- I THINK IF YOU AND I MET...
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| 00:45:36 |
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SO BECAUSE I KIND OF BELIEVE IT. COUNT BE LESS IMPRESSED. CIVILIZATION IS WHERE REASON KICKS IN AND WHERE THERE ARE UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS, WHERE SKEPTICISM...
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| 00:47:01 |
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TERRITORIES AND TO WHAT
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| 00:47:03 |
Caller, -
THE THE NAZIS DID TO THE JEWS BACK IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR? >> TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, NO TO THE LAST BIT. I DON'T THINK IT IS REMOTELY COMPARABLE...
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| 00:47:31 |
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DESTROY WESTERN CIVILIZATION. BUT YOU ARE HEARING THIS SAID FIRMLY, I HOPE, BY SOMEONE WHO THINKS THAT YOU JUST UNDERSTATED MATTERS ABOUT SHARON. HE...
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| 00:50:01 |
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I OFTEN WONDER HOW OLD I SEEM. >> Caller: I JUST WAS WONDERING WHAT YOU
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| 00:50:05 |
Caller, -
FEEL ABOUT THE
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| 00:50:06 |
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BRITISH ROLE AND
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| 00:50:08 |
Caller, -
THE PALESTINIAN SITUATION, TO INFLAME THIS
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| 00:50:13 |
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REGION. WHAT DO YOU FEEL
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| 00:50:15 |
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THAT
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| 00:50:17 |
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WE THE -- >> OH, DON'T BE SO
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| 00:50:19 |
Caller, -
MODEST. Caller: AND
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| 00:50:22 |
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ALSO WHAT DID YOU
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| 00:50:24 |
Caller, -
STUDY? >> I STUDIED PHILOSOPHY, AND ECONOMICS. DID I GET THAT QUESTION QUITE RIGHT? >> HOW WOULD YOU SIZE UP TONY BLAIR? >> WELL, I DON'T EVEN -- WHEN...
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| 00:50:41 |
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ONE THAT'S PRODUCED HIM. BUT I VERY MUCH ADMIRE THE WAY HE
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| 00:50:47 |
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HAS HANDLED HIMSELF RECENTLY. ONE EXAMPLE WHAT I MEAN, AS YOU KNOW, QUITE A LOST
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| 00:50:53 |
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OUR FELLOW -- MY FELLOW ENGLISHMEN AND WOMEN
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| 00:50:57 |
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WERE KILLED IN THAT ATROCITY. WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY. BUT QUITE A LOT. MORE THAN HAS EVER BEEN KILLED BY THAT KIND OF THING AT ONE TIME BEFORE IN BELFAST...
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| 00:52:52 |
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IS, IS THAT
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| 00:52:53 |
Caller, -
YOU HAVE ADVOCATED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WITH INDIA. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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| 00:52:59 |
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HAS COME TO POWER, CHRISTIANS ARE BEING KILLED IN THAT
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| 00:53:04 |
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COUNTRY, INDIAN BRUTALITY IN KASHMIR
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| 00:53:06 |
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HAS GONE WIDELY UNREPORTED. INDIA HAS FOUGHT WARS WITH MOST OF HIS NEIGHBORS AND INTERFERED
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| 00:53:12 |
Caller, -
IN INTEERNL AFFAIRS, WHERE IT HAS SUPPORTED THE TIGERS. INDIA OPPOSED THE U.N. RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMO RSMT. INDIA OPPOSES THE KASHMIRY PEOPLE IN HAVING...
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| 00:54:10 |
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IN MANY OF THE STATES THAT MAKE UP THE STATE AND NOT IN POWER IN A NUMBER OF OTHER PLACES. INDIA AS MRUR ALIST IK. IT HAS A SECULAR CONSTITUTION. IT HAS...
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| 00:55:55 |
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THE ENTIRE AREA COVERING ISRAEL AND JORDAN. I WONDER
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| 00:55:59 |
Caller, -
IF COULD YOU TELL ME AT WHAT.THE PALESTINIANS WENT TO JORDAN AND I REALIZE THEY WERE KICKED OUT WHEN THEY BLEW UP SOME PASSENGER JETS OR SOMETHING....
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| 00:56:31 |
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STATES UNTIL YOU COULDN'T PART FROM THE ONE YOU WERE SITTING IN. IF SOMEONE TOLD YOU WE WOULD RATHER HAVE YOUR BIT OF
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| 00:56:38 |
Caller, -
LOS ANGELES FOR OURSELVES FROM NOW ON, THIS WOULD ONLY BE -- YOU CAN ONLY BE A LAND HOLDER OR A HOUSEHOLDER HERE IF YOU PROFESS THE SAME MUSLIM OR BOOZIST
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| 00:56:50 |
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FAITH. OTHERWISE, GET OUT. YOU ARE HAPPY TO GO TO COLORADO ON THAT BASIS. I DON'T THINK SO AND I THINK IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, YOU WOULDN'T INSULT ANYONE...
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