Somehow I suspect that you could reproduce the whole book here and we
still wouldn't be sure what she meant by "nihilism." All I can offer is
that particular guess...
Jim
jlsmith3@earthlink.net wrote:
>Here's some more context with Hillary, but it's still darn hard to say what she means by "nihilism." I don't want to quote any more of it, as I'm getting nervous about the copyright stuff, but here is an excerpt:
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> "Late in the campaign, on October 12, the USS <i>Cole</i> was attacked by terrorists in Yemen. The powerful explosion killed seventeen American sailors and ripped a hole in the destroyer's hull....
> I despise terrorism and the nihilism it represents, and I was incredulous when the New York Republican Party and Lazio campaign insinuated that I was somehow involved with the terrorists who blew up the <i>Cole</i>."
> (from Simon & Schuster hardback edition, pgs 521-522)
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>"I suspect that she sees terrorists as being motivated by purely negative impulses -- destroy the bad -- rather than constructively serving a clearly articulated ideal that they're willing to see realized incrementally."
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>works for me
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>luke
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