Comments on: NPR: Nice Trees. Can't Imagine There's a Forest Around Here Though. http://stumplane.us/2009/10/29/npr-nice-trees-cant-imagine-theres-a-forest-around-here-though/ in the dirt since history began Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:36:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Montag http://stumplane.us/2009/10/29/npr-nice-trees-cant-imagine-theres-a-forest-around-here-though/#comment-1026 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:26:01 +0000 http://www.stumplane.us/blog/?p=1788#comment-1026 well said.

see also Arthur Silber regarding interests and justifications: link

]]> By: JRB http://stumplane.us/2009/10/29/npr-nice-trees-cant-imagine-theres-a-forest-around-here-though/#comment-1025 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:45:01 +0000 http://www.stumplane.us/blog/?p=1788#comment-1025 Acknowledging “interests” undermines the premise of a “national interest,” so instrumental in advancing the interests of certain groups over others. This is particularly important in foreign policy where no pretense of a democratic process prevails; the commander-in-chief acts in every instance to defend the “national interest.” To depart from this formula is to depart from liberal-democratic theology altogether, so it is not surprising that graduate degree holders in journalism are reluctant to do so.

Competing interests are only acknowledged in the legislative and juridical spheres, where they are invariably asserted to be equal under the law, regardless of every other inequality.

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