Carrol Cox wrote: > When has U.S. war making had anything to do with facts?
it has always had _something_ to do with facts. Those are needed to legitimize a war (though legitimacy is less needed with no explicit conscription). If they can't justify the war with actual factual facts (as it were), they create them (as with the Gulf of Tonkin "incidents"). In either case, it is worthwhile to attack the "facts" that the government puts forward, along with their interpretation of them. Simply dismissing them as "lies" won't do. -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
