Concur entirely in the comments I leave standing from a previous posting.
Tom White

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> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:28:59 EST
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> Subject: Re: laureates against the war
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> It's really something to read this jingoistic blither on a list devoted to
> Pound.  Like most Americans, Mr. Lukas thinks that September 11 sprung from
> the head of Osama bin Laden fully blown, with no history to predate it.
> Arabs hate America because they're a bunch of religious fanatics who slobber
> at the thought of killing infidels, wherever they may be found.  No mention
> in Mr. Lukas' nationalistic reading of events to include American and Western
> meddling in the Middle-East, the propping up of harsh, repressive regimes,
> the heavy tilt toward Israel as a client state, the continued destruction of
> Iraqi children with the fanatic embargo  -- none of this makes even the
> slightest dent in the ahistorical construct of Mr. Lukas.   It's astonishing.
> but Mr. Lukas makes one nostalgic for En Lin Wei -- whoever he was/is.  No
> sir, all Mr. Lukas can do is throw up his hands and whine --"What is America
> to do?"
>
>
>
> 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