[lbo-talk] Benazir Bhutto reportedly assasinated in a suicide bomb attack

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Fri Dec 28 19:20:28 PST 2007


On Dec 28, 2007, at 6:22 PM, cbcox at ilstu.edu wrote:


> On hearing the news of Waterloo, Byron said

Damn you, Carrol, you know my weaknesses.


> Have you read the Charterhouse of Parma?

There's so much Byron, which is not an excuse.


> Napoleon personally might have been a
> first-class jerk, but on the question of whether or not he was a
> "threat to
> humanity simply by [his] continued existence" is it would seem
> debatable.
> Byron's judgment of his world is nto to be dismissed off hand.

Possibly it was a bad example. Maybe Nathan Bedford Forrest or Jefferson Davis are better ones. Or maybe not. Or maybe I'm wrong--I'd like to be.

John A



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