On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Thomas Seay wrote:
> I dont see the big deal one way or the other about the
> Clark meeting.
i agree. frankly, i think it was barely noticed.
>
> I dont watch much television, but I just saw the most
> remarkable thing on MSNBC. While
> they were interviewing some expert as to whether or
> not he thought Bush really meant that he would, if he
> could, have Hussein assasinated, there flashed on the
> screen various coups or attempted coups by the US
> government: 1953 in Iran, The Bay of Pigs invasion,
> Chile, Grenada, etc etc. It's interesting how far the
> idea that the US has the right to intervene for
> "democratic" purposes has penetrated into the mindset
> of Americans. This was quite brazen. It was as
> though they were saying, "Look, we have done this
> before, and sometimes it worked."
it's appalling. and most recently there's the curious case of venezuela, although at least there we appear not to have been responsible for any deaths . . . yet.
j
>
> -Thomas
> --- Jeffrey Fisher <jfisher at igc.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 07:16 AM, Dennis
>> Perrin wrote:
>>
>>>> Help, I'm starting to sympathize with Christopher
>>>> Hitchens. Someone please make this feeling go
>> away.2) as dennis points out, the democracy
>> aspect of this
>> liberation project (and, by extension, hitch's
>> position on the war) is
>> rapidly losing credibility.
>
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> <<Be like me! The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally
> impelling into life,
> eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of
> phenomena.>>
> -Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
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