Where I get a C+

Damned liberal teachers. And it's my school!

In "Zealots Then, Zealots Now, " Steven Usdin feels that by understanding what motivated spies in the past, particularly the Rosenberg ring, we can be forearmed against  more of the same by Muslim fanatics.  This is at least an interesting read, focusing primarily on Joel Barr, the Rosenberg cell spy who was the most productive.  Usdin cites conditions in New York's Jewish tenements, and overt anti-Semitism that seemed to doom any chance for advancing in the American corporate world, as cause for their treason.  Rodger,  C+.  I'd give you an A, but I hate neocons ''THE EXPERIENCES THAT MADE BARR a dedicated communist bear striking resemblances to the conditions in today's Parisian suburbs, whose high-rise housing projects are reminiscent of New York tenements in the first decades of the 20 th century. Even more than Barr's contemporaries, Muslim emigrants throughout Europe feel they are the subjects of racial and religious discrimination and have little hope for social or economic integration into the prosperous society surrounding them.'' I don't see it.  If anything, American Universities will today give Muslims preference over the white Christian.  Not only that, many of the most radical ''human bombs'' (hard to be more radical that that) are educated, and well off.  Osama is a multi-millionaire, his second in command, Zawahiri a respected physician.  No, I don't see any  Muslim barrios, not in this country.  Europe may be another matter. One thing Usdin does nail is the agitprop in this country ... Whoa there. Mr. Limbaugh! ''Like communist appeals for volunteers to combat fascism in Spain in the 1930s, radical Islam's recruiting messages for martyrs to fight in Chechnya and Iraq are "in the air," preached in mosques, propagated in pamphlets and promoted on the Internet'' It's this area where we stand to lose the most souls to radicalism.  It's this area where monitoring is most crucial.  It is this area where American Liberals are likely to get us kilt because, like al-Qaeda, only winning matters to them.  .  Then Prime Mister Thatcher once admonished liberals in Parliament with the charge that they'd  be satisfied to see every one fail, jbecause then the misery would be evenly spread.  I get the feelig that Democrats wouild accept massive death and destruction, so long as Bush took the blame. .  kilt?  Are you Davy Crockett?