Concur entirely in the comments I leave standing from a previous posting. Tom White > From: [log in to unmask] > Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:28:59 EST > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: laureates against the war > > 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