Anniversary

billbartlett at dodo.com.au billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Wed Sep 18 23:55:02 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


>The concept of collective guilt simply surrenders to imperialism.
>Nothing is achieved by such raving, and a great deal is lost, since the
>only force that can stop the horror consists of the very people you are
>blaming for it.

I read here an admission by you that the people I am blaming for not stopping it, can stop it. So how do you reconcile that admission with the protestation that for me to plainly say that they are collectively guilty of not stopping it merely a raving "surrender to imperialism" whatever that means?

Is it that you find plain speaking "disgusting"?


> This is just as disgusting as the whinings of those who
>think some mythical "left" should engage in breast-beating about how
>horrible AQ was and etcetera etcetera.

Why do you find it disgusting? I'm just connecting the dots. Americans can stop it, you said so yourself. They refuse to do so. Why should this refusal be guilt free? Why don't they deserve the consequences? I don't get it, what am I missing?

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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