Terror Inc.

[Peter K.]

>In the face of that kind of psychological anxiety chain, there are a few
>ways to respond. For, after all, what is going on here if you're aligned
>with the left? As a USer, and you can't help having those feelings (Budge
>has a nice line from a song about this...hope he's reading!), what do you
>do? You are clearly a member of a group of people that is despised--and for
>good (from their perspective) they want to wipe the US out. So, Carrol's
>dictum--try to think of yourself as NOT an American--doesn't sit well.

Carrol's dictum, reductio ad absurdum, would be for Americans to
just kill themselves and deprive the war machine of a working gear
or part.


>But, you also recognize an affinity with the left, among whom are many
>non-USers who are trying hard to repress their own Schadenfrued--a not
>undeserved response, let's be clear. We are a bunch of self-absorbed whiney
>snots who lead relatively charmed lives.

Speak for yourself!!! I find it incredibly annoying when people lump me in with
that collective pronoun "we," especially when they know little about me.