Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
>
> Greetings, Keith...
>
> Pearl's death is so sad. He was a fellow alumnus. But, I am sorry to day,
> it is no sadder than the killing of an Afghan innocent. They are all being
> used as pawns. 'Collateral damage' -- that favorite of the US Defense
> Department -- is blind and cuts all ways.
Sigmund Freud addressed this issue, albeit as somewhat greater
reflective distance, in _Civilization and its Discontents_:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/civil.html
Elsa Morante's under-recognized novel: _History: A Novel_ is a
powerful artistic expression of it.
Elie Wiesel:
Don't compare! All suffering is intolerable!
And then there is Michelet's distinction between those who are part of
history, and
The little people who end up even more dead than the rest
(because their names and their deeds are not preserved in the historical
"record", i.e., the conversation a living society carries on with its past).
I commend you for rising above the sentimentality of the day.
>
> We must recognize, as I and more importantly, others have been warning, that
> the US administration's actions in response to Sept 11 have and will produce
> further anger at the US and an increase in anti-US terrorist activity. Pearl
> is one such victim. It would be disengenuous of us to close out eyes to the
> fact that more than anything else, it is US activity that killed Pearl. Had
> it not been for that activity, Pearl would be alive today.
George W Bush thinks the problem is that the people
who "hate us" don't really understand us, and that this
poblem can be solved with better Press Releases. In my
estimation (and that of the New York Times, the
problem is more substantive:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/quotes.html#Q86
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/quotes.html#Q85
--
The only problem I have with George W Bush, like the problem I had
with the CEO who destroyed the greatest company in the world,
IBM, is that neither man admitted he is incompetent and voluntarily
left the scene so that better heads may have had a chance to save
the situation.
[snip]
> It is tragic, and all of it unnecessary.
[snip]
It is tragic *because* it is unnecessary.
And history continues.
(--Else Morante)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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