The Kerry issue must touch a chord in
Pound studies.  Pound studies will
always be tainted and muddled by Pound's
own unqualified for fascism.  Pound
scholars are often left with only a few
choices: to ignore his fascism, to find
excuses for it, to "forgive" him, or to
meet the issue head on unflinchingly.

In the last case, Pound scholars must
analyze the extent to which Pound's fascism
is an integral part of his world view. A
number of Pound scholars do not have the courage
to face this problem.

The issue is very similar with Bob Kerry.
The genocidal policy which the US pursued
against Vietnam cannot yet be called by its
true name.  Kerry's actions touch on this issue.
Kerry's alleged atrocities, might force the US to face
its own culpability for committing one of the worst
crimes of the 20th century.  Yet the truth cannot
be faced.  The media must divert, deflect, obfuscate,
and talk around the issue, because the US still
persists, on the highest institutional level, to argue
that the war was simply a "mistake" or a bad
judgment.

Like Pound's fascism, this is was not merely a
mistake, or a simple misperception of moral reality.

Put very bluntly, as long as Pound scholars
do not acknowledge that his fascism, his elitism, his imperialism,
and his racism are integral features of his world
view, no deep understanding can be achieved.

Similarly, as long as official ideologists
of the US do not acknowledge responsbility for mass
murder, atrocities, imperialism,
and racism, no deep understanding can be achieved.

D.L.







> >From: [log in to unmask]
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Regarding Bob K.
> >Date: Wed, May 23, 2001, 7:46 AM
> >
>
> > "These fought in any case,
> >   and some believing,
> >             pro domo, in any case...
> >
> > Some quick to arm,
> > some for adventure,
> > some from fear of weakness,
> > some from fear of censure,
> > some for love of slaughter, in imagination,
> > learning later...
> > some in fear, learning love of slaughter;" (Pound)
> >
> > Thank, Charles, for cutting through the slag with EP's words.  The
>ex-Senator
> > is a friend of mine, and I can say with no hesitation that he, like most
> > soldiers, entered the fray for reasons that are an vague but powerful
>mixture
> > of the kinds of motives Pound identifies.  He did, however, never learn
>to
> > love slaughter, in fact, has spent his life recoiling from it, as
>witnessed
> > by his devotion to the anti-war activities that continue to this day.
> > Jay
>
>Always better late than never. "Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'..." nonetheless
>
>Charles

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