At first, my response to this was "it's only a joke, get over it." But the more I think about it, the leaden delivery of this joke feels ooky, like an eagle's talons on a blackboard. It suggests the arrogance of power. It's as if JFK had made jokes about assassinating foreign leaders: after all, Obama's increased use of drone attacks has killed a lot of civilians. They don't even require the exact identification of a target's name anymore. By any reasonable definition of that contentious term, this is terrorism.
Louis Proyect wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4 -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
