Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> ``Truly the words of a truly sick and malignant fuck...''
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> Brad DeLong
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> Well me and Arafat wish you and yours a Merry Christmas too Brad. Glad
> you could make it out today.
Sartre, in commenting on the genocidal strategy followed by the U.S., acknowledged that the long established and self-deceptive hypocrisy of the u.s. ruling class made it difficult to determine to what extent the genocide was "deliberate." I suppose Brad's offensive smugness should be assigned to that tradition of arrant hypocrisy rather than the more overt SS attitudes of an Ollie North.
Among the earliest headlines I can remember are shocked responses to the 'criminal' German bombing of Rotterdam, which (the papers suggested) simply broke all known laws of human decency. It was the U.S., however, and not Nazi Germany, which over Hamburg and Dresden, Tokyo and Nagasaki, the Christmas Bombings of 1972, etc. established the standard strategic principle of modern warfare: terror bombing of the enemy's civilian population. So the only question is whether 911 should be considered an act of war? If so, it was, _by standards the U.S. itself has established_ quite proper and moral. If it was not an act of war, then what the devil are U.S. forces doing in Afghanistan? And the surprise nature of the attack is of course fully justified by the standards the U.S. established in Grenada and Panama.
Pah! The hypocrisy of a Brad stinks to heaven.
Carrol