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Dec 10 15:11 UTC 2003

Accusing me, md, of "simple prejudices" (as opposed to what? complex
prejudices?), which may or may not be true, ignores the factg you
betray your own prejudices by equating monarchy (and Englishness?)
with evil, or support for it with a defective state of mind, etc.) As
I indicated in my response above, it is possible to have a monarch who
can be looked up to, or a president who is a loser, without
necessarily agreeing with monarchy in general, or disagreeing with
republicanism. Kemal Ataturk, the 20th century Turkish "benevolent
dictator", is the person we have to thank in large part for the fact
that Turkey is a member of NATO and perhaps the only current example
of a Muslim state where the government is secular and truly
republican.