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| | Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online |
 | | The point here is that the Europeans, the Japanese, and to a somewhat lesser extent the South Koreans argue for talking through their problems because, like a thick wad of food stamps burning a hole in their pockets, talk is pretty much the only currency they have to spend. |
 | | Second, because the Europeans must rely on talk, diplomacy, negotiation, engagement different words for the same tool to solve their problems, they are more willing to promise things they otherwise wouldn't. |
 | | Like the kid living off his Chevron card, they've come to believe the world is like a giant college campus, where conflicts may erupt in the form of debates and shouting matches but violence is simply "against the rules," and where being asked to pay your own way in the world seems an absurd injustice. |
| www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg101802.asp (1531 words) |
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