Prophesy unto the highest heaven if you want, Max,
but for me all bets are off. Too many imponderables.
valis
I've got a hunch things could unfold, or unravel, differently
this time. The U.S. has set an objective criterion for
In message Pine.GSO.3.95.980212050159.29227A-10@earth, valis
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The period of imitation of the West, both in social norms and ideology,
is over and widely discredited, which is why Islam is resurgent.
This old-new cycle will have to play itself out first; if autarky
At 10:02 PM 2/11/98 -0500, Max Sawicky wrote:
I think it is possible that opposition to intervention
will come from the right as well as the left.
MBS
Pat Buchanan was last seen on a Sunday windbag pundit show inveighing
against a U.S. missile strike, going so far as to claim that the evidence
john gulick muses:
I think it is possible that opposition to intervention
will come from the right as well as the left.
Pat Buchanan was last seen on a Sunday windbag pundit show inveighing
against a U.S. missile strike, going so far as to claim that the evidence
wasn't clear that Saddam
Gar Lipow rebuts:
As far as making a difference is concerned, a difference in blood,
in treasure, but above all in freedom and mutual comprehension,
Edward Said is too late; it was too late before he was born, too late
a century ago and more. Islam and the West make a binary of hardwired
Apocalypse Now
by Edward Said
It would be a mistake, I think, to reduce what is happening between Iraq
and the United States simply to an assertion of Arab will and sovereignty
on the one hand versus American imperialism, which undoubtedly plays a
central role in all this. However
It's hardly surprising that no one on the list feels up to addressing
the comments of Edward Said, nearly four hours after they arrived here.
The immediate subject and the larger world-historical constellation
to which it belongs can by now inspire only a weariness unto death.
Said has been
valis wrote:
It's hardly surprising that no one on the list feels up to addressing
the comments of Edward Said, nearly four hours after they arrived here.
The immediate subject and the larger world-historical constellation
to which it belongs can by now inspire only a weariness unto death.
Quoth Valis, channeling Prof. Said,
Said ending "Apocalypse Now":
The saddest aspect of the whole thing is that Iraqi civilians seem
condemned to additional suffering and protracted agony.
I've got a hunch things could unfold, or unravel, differently
this time. The U.S. has set an
