In a message dated 02/13/2003 1:04:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> What then, should America have done in response to the horrors of Sept. 11?
> Should the Taliban still rule Afghanistan? Should Osama bin Laden be free
> to
> build bigger and better bombs with which to kill non-muslims? Is not Saddam
> Hussein himself a warmonger of the worst ilk? What is the pacifist response
> to men willing to use unlimited aggression to maintain their ironfisted
> rules?
>

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