Radio Doug

[s-t-t at juno.com]

Good Behind the News yesterday.  But, jeez, Ellen Willis was
exasperating.  What gives?  It's the military's job to kill, so we
needn't get all "emotional" about the death toll of US foreign policy or
the reasons for this.  WTF?

And why the harping on independent judgements?  I could be fooled into
believing she thought that switching Washington's rationales for war with
more palatable ones of our own would magically swap the war fought for
the war as scripted on the laptops of Western liberals.  It's not so much
that she supported the war in Kosovo that gets me, but her "independent"
rationales put forward on the radio show were in and of themselves
distressing, *especially* for someone writing for a book on the dynamics
of power in a global order.

George Orwell once said that a machine gun doesn't cease to be a machine
gun because a "good" person pulls the trigger.  Nor is a cruise missile
any less lethal because a bleeding-heart sets it upon its mark, or claims
to.  There's a tenuous line between realism and power worship.

-- Shane

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