Lapsing into Latin

rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 29 19:12:09 PST 2001


At 04:24 PM 11/29/2001, you wrote:
>At 04:49 PM 11/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>The failure of the Taliban government to fulfill its obligation was a
>>casus belli.
>
>Why does an internal flag go up when people lapse into Latin?

think this is a lapse?


>Even Freud would resort to latin when he got too embarrassed.
>
>It may have been a reason for war. I'm sure Nicaragua had reason to go to
>war against the United States following our bout of terrorism on their
>soil. (Or hell, we wasted a few thousand Panamanians getting
>Noriega...another causus belli.) But they didn't. The point is we bombed
>Afghanistan for the same "reason" we have done some many other things: we
>could get away with it.
>
>Joanna B.



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