[lbo-talk] SPIEGEL on Dresden

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Feb 15 19:28:33 PST 2005


Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wojtek Sokolowski
>
> <...>
> Is there a rational position on this issue other than the trite anti-war
> slogans?

The anti-war slogans are trite only in the same sense as is e=mc*2. And what is totally irrational is calling anti-war slogans trite. It is calling them trite, not in using them, that banality lies. If you jump in the water you will get wet. Trite? Perhaps. Also true. Of course it is beneath W., apparently, to specify _which_ anti-war slogans he considers trite. Why should superior beings like him bother to explain themselves.

The real puzzle is why anyone should think there is any difficulty at all in arriving at a judgment of Dresden.

Carrol



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