[lbo-talk] "Cheer the Fuck Up"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 1 20:22:53 PDT 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>The American men and women who had themselves photographed while
>torturing Iraqis look to be . . . a very cheerful bunch, in a
>mythical All-American sort of way, with big grins and thumbs up. I
>can imagine them telling the tortured Iraqis to "cheer the fuck up,"
>in a military version of the totalitarian command "enjoy!"

Oh for christ's sake. Are you just driven by the sheer urge to be contrary?

"Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable." - Foucault

Doug



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