Excuse error in title earlier. The correction is noted: May He Rest in Darkness_McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Notions forming the credible and the incredible are equally radiable or eludible. Accordingly; time, place and person render these adustible, electable, or admirable. Moving on, let us hear a paragraph from Andre Breton's Second Manifesto. Here in the words of Breton's more prolific translators, Mary Ann Cavs, " The Second Manifesto ends with the an eloquent invocation of mental adventure (below), which takes fully into account the possibility of failure and determines to count even that a victory."
Let him use in spite of all prohibition, the avenging weapon of the idea against the bestiality of all beings and of all things; and then one day when he is vanquished--but vanquished only if the world is world--let him greet the firing of the sad guns as if it were a salute. (OC I, 828) (from André Breton by Mary Ann Cavs, in chapter 1924-53: Manifestos. published by Twayne). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ venantius j pinto From: Mario Goveia <mgov...@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: [Goanet] May be Rest in Darkness_McNamara: From the Tokyo > Firestorm to the World Bank > > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:46:20 -0400 > From: Venantius Pinto <venantius.pi...@gmail.com> > > May be Rest in Darkness > McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank > by Alexander Cockburn > http://www.counterpunch.org/ > > Indeed McNamara's legacy is of the perverse. > > Mario responds: > > Readers of Counterpunch and author Alexander Cockburn need to know that > this is a far left wing publication and Cockburn is a vicious and > mean-spirited Marxist-sympathiser and anti-Semite, as demonstrated by this > sentiment at the death of a political opponent "May He Rest in Darkness". > > Robert McNamara's legacy was marred by the left wing and the Democrat party > in America when they cut the military budget on the verge of a VietCong > military collapse. This is not my opinion but that of VietCong General > Giap, who mentioned in his memoires that he was shocked when the Americans > began to pull out because his forces were virtually on their knees after > their failed Tet offensive. > > After the war, the VietCong and Khmer Rouge, whom Cockburn and his Marxist > colleagues had described as benign freedom fighters, massacred some 3 > million innocent Vietnamese and Cambodians. > > Real freedom fighters do not massacre their own people. >