[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Agree that he shouldn't have been there, or should have been more careful.
> But slashing his throat in front of a video camera is a bit much.
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I have no reason to dispute that Pearl's fate was both horrible and
undeserved.
What I do have a big concern about is the way these kind of
things become *distractions* from the root causes.
George W has all but given up on catching Osama bin Laden
in the foreseeable future -- and yet that was "why" we
got into Afghanistan. Reminds me of something I saw
on TV last night about J Edgar Hoover's obsession to catch
John Dillinger back in the 1930s. In that case,
the man finally did get his man, but, along the way
his agents killed a number of innocent people in
really stupid mistakes (collateral
damage?) and apparently didn't think anything of it. When
the main agent on the scene offered to resign after
killing 3 persons by mistaken identity, Hoover
refused to accept his resignation.
Now I hear on the news that it is sacrilegious
or something to sell the steel from the WTC for
scrap. Well, if it isn't scrap, what is it?
I was ewxpecdting the story to tell how selling this
stuff to third world countries (where it will
perforce go) was like the movie "The Woman in the Dunes":
that we would we selling defective steel to these
poor countries where it would be used to build
unsound buildings and people would likely die
when the structures failed. Silly me!
And what about all the other people who died
on September 11 (or on any other day)? Why aren't
their survivors due a big payout? To change
something Nietzsche wrote, trading
space for time:
Some men die too near,
and some men die too far away.
The trick is to die in the right place.
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How about ferreting out all the reasons for
our intelligence failure on "911"? But Tenet
told the Senate there was *no intelligence failure*
concerning "911"!!!
It's only one step from shedding tears -- however
well intentioned -- for those who have either ceased
to exist or gone to their eternal reward (or do
we believe in *INDULGENCES*?) --> It's only
one step from sentimentality *about* the dead,
to sentimentality *producing more corpses*.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Clearly Christ didn't mean what it sounds like
when he suggested leaving the dead to bury the
dead.)
--
Young men are sent to their deaths by
middle aged men who don't have the decency
to look at a sword each evening and ask
themselves if they can "live with themselves" not to
plunge it in their own paunches for one more day.
Or they could just admit they are incompetent to
do their jobs and betake themselves to
third world countries that would be willing
to take them in like they and their
predecessors here have taken in so many of their
"leaders" in past.
To restate in different words the message of
Elsa Morante's fine novel: _History: A Novel_:
Ever again.
\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)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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