jb,
You certainly seem angry at the world - too angry to have a substantive
discussion. I hope you can find a productive use for all that energy.
For now, I'll get out of your way.
Best wishes,
Brennen
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>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: laureates against the war
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:05:01 EST
>
>In a message dated 02/14/2003 10:32:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > The real question, the one I am attempting to address squarely, is what
> > should America now do?
>
>Well, it should gets it collective ass out of other peoples' countries, it
>should stop looting their economies, it should stop propping up ruthless
>dictators, and it should stop devouring the world's resources out of
>proportion to just about every other country. For myself, I don't see
>anywhere in your remarks that you are attempting to 'address squarely' what
>America should do now. Mostly you've been blithering about George Bush,
>and
>how he was 'elected' -- and you don't seem to realize that a serious
>disagreement exits within this country as to whether or not he was elected
>--
>and how we should all get behind him and kill Iraqis, Afghanis,or whomever.
>This is not, as some on this list would suggest, a sophisticated issue --
>it's all about the money -- the tens of trillions (that's trillions, Bubba)
>that Iraqi oil alone represents to Western Oil Companies. That's why we're
>being put at risk, so that the corpocracy can swell up like a bloated tick.
>If we have to lose a few buildings -- or a few cities -- then tough shit.
>(Please, don't anyone waste their time telling me that it's about World
>Domination -- the only reason any country would want to dominate the world
>is
>to cash in on it.) Now I accept that there isn't much one can do about it,
>but neither do we have to sit around writing paeans to our inglorious
>leaders, and waxing sentimental about a view of America one gets from a
>Jimmy
>Stewart movie.
>
>jb...
>
>
>
>They hang the man and flog the woman
>That steal the goose from off the common,
>But let the greater villain loose
>That steals the common from the goose.
>
>Constant apprehension of war has the same tendency
>to render the head too large for the body. A standing military
>force with an overgrown executive will not long be safe.
>companions to liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
>
>
>"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and
>disinformed
>by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say
>corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't
>want us to know."
>
>Gore Vidal
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