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An election’s coming: Bill Bradley has been to Iowa, and Jesse Jackson has been to Iraq.

The Left doesn’t like George Bush’s taking a stand against Iraq, but who cares? The Nation has muttered, Ramsey Clark has given a press conference— but all the attention that has been given to arguments pro and con has gone to conservative arguers. The end of Communism, which was supposed to marginalize conservatives by depriving them of someone to hate, has in fact, by confirming their long-standing diagnosis of world events, moved them to center stage. Meanwhile, who wants to know what people who were so wrong about the Berlin Wall think of the Persian Gulf? It may not make sense to cite the lopsidedness of the debate as further proof that “our” time has come, when we disagree among ourselves. But theirs has gone.

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An election’s coming: Bill Bradley has been to Iowa, and Jesse Jackson has been to Iraq.

The Left doesn’t like George Bush’s taking a stand against Iraq, but who cares? The Nation has muttered, Ramsey Clark has given a press conference— but all the attention that has been given to arguments pro and con has gone to conservative arguers. The end of Communism, which was supposed to marginalize conservatives by depriving them of someone to hate, has in fact, by confirming their long-standing diagnosis of world events, moved them to center stage. Meanwhile, who wants to know what people who were so wrong about the Berlin Wall think of the Persian Gulf? It may not make sense to cite the lopsidedness of the debate as further proof that “our” time has come, when we disagree among ourselves. But theirs has gone.