Perry Anderson: Casuistries of Peace and War (As the republic an structure crumbles)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 28 12:08:02 PST 2003


Mark Bennett wrote:


>As the republican cookie crumbles . . . .
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030228/ap_on_re_us/teachers_iraq_2
>
>Can't have impressionable school kids questioning the uses and abuses
>overwhelming military power. Who knows where that will lead . . ..

Wow


>In Maine, Department of Education (news - web sites) Commissioner
>Duke Albanese sent a memo to superintendents and principals, writing
>that it had been brought to his attention some school personnel had
>been "less than sensitive to children of military families regarding
>our continued strained relations with Iraq."

Don't criticize the war because it might hurt the children! And our relations with Iraq are "strained." How much stupidity can you pack into a single paragraph?

Doug



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