Anniversary

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Sep 18 13:56:00 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

Ordinary Americans are neither architects nor beneficiaries of the US Empire. Rather, they are victims of it, though they don't know that they are. -- Yoshie

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