[lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet

[Carl Remick]

>From: Andy F <andyf274 at yahoo.com>
>
>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
> > To her credit, Sontag did criticize common American
> > reactions to the
> > 9/11 terrorist attack, which many liberals embraced.
> >  Most liberals
> > don't object to an American war unless it gets as
> > bad as the invasion
> > of Iraq.  To this day, little rethinking on
> > Yugoslavia has taken
> > place in liberal circles, and it's not clear why
> > they think it is OK
> > to do "regime change" in Yugoslavia but not in Iraq.
>
>I read it one of the eulogies to her that she later
>changed her mind about her position on Yugoslavia,
>saying that she had had some belief in "surgical
>bombing".

You'd think Sontag of all people would have been sensitive to the abuse of 
surgery as a metaphor for military attack.  The whole notion of precision in 
applying high explosives to populated areas is insane -- like trying to use 
a shotgun blast to remove an appendix.

Carl