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The Fog of War.

 
The person of excellence understands what is moral. 
The petty person understands what is profitable.
                   "Analects" IV.16, Confucius
 
Robert E. Kibler, Ph.D.
English and Humanities
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-----Original Message-----
From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Kibler
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:57 PM
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Subject: Re: ALA panels, etc.

Did you see that Macnamara documentary where is essentially admits that Vietnam was a mistake based on American ego and provincialism? 

 
The person of excellence understands what is moral. 
The petty person understands what is profitable.
                   "Analects" IV.16, Confucius
 
Robert E. Kibler, Ph.D.
English and Humanities
Director, Northern Plains Writing Project
229 Hartnett Hall West
Minot State University
500 University Avenue West
Minot, North Dakota 58701
telephone: 701 858 3876
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
fax: 701 858 3894


-----Original Message-----
From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alphaville
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: ALA panels, etc.

<And similar, from Apocalypse Now, about charging someone with murder in Vietnam was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500.>


Perhaps. I didn't have capital offenses in mind. But since we've gone 
Hollywood, you could point up My Lai (which in fact was a top down 
command operation. see Hersh, Parcelli et al), say, and contrast it to 
Kaye's foreign policy analysis directed at Michael Cordoleone in 
Godfather Part II, "Murder backed up by reason. That's your thing." to 
accurately distinguish a Robert McNamara or Henry Kissinger from the 
actions of their fodder. CP

Robert Kibler wrote:

>And similar, from Apocalypse Now, about charging someone with murder in Vietnam was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500.
>
> 
>The person of excellence understands what is moral. 
>The petty person understands what is profitable.
>                   "Analects" IV.16, Confucius
> 
>Robert E. Kibler, Ph.D.
>English and Humanities
>Director, Northern Plains Writing Project
>229 Hartnett Hall West
>Minot State University
>500 University Avenue West
>Minot, North Dakota 58701
>telephone: 701 858 3876
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>fax: 701 858 3894
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
>Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:57 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: ALA panels, etc.
>
>Alphaville wrote:
>  
>
>><"In a regime of grand larceny, petty
>>larceny ranks as conformity.">?
>>
>>Given its from memory, more likely a paraphrase. Or Pound citing some
>>cheeky Han Dynasty PD. CP
>>
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>>
>
>There are some lines that express the same sentiment in one of the Pisan
>Cantos. I think they contain the phrase, "of grand larceny." I can't
>locate them quickly, however.
>
>Carrol
>
>  
>

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