[lit-ideas] Re: Eric's hypocritcal wars

On 4/3/06, Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Eric: Call me out on the attitudes--if they are
> attitudes and not the projection your own personal
> anxieties--and try to change my mind. You probably
> don't even know what I believe.

Quite true. Who knows what relation the avatars that appear online
have to real selves, or even if real selves exist (that's for Peter
Junger and a nod to the Buddhist notion that the self is another
illusion). Communicating in writing and never meeting face-to-face we
can only address the attitudes.
>
> If you deplore politicians who put our youth in
> harm's way, you'll have a grudge with everyone
> from Thomas Jefferson to Hillary Clinton. But I
> will certainly cut you slack because you have
> children in the military.
>

You appear to have forgotten the earlier message in which I said
clearly that I am not opposed to military action per se or those, over
the years, in which I have argued that a draft might be a good thing
after all. But I hear what my Marine Corps son-in-law is saying when
he compares his service in Iraq, bombing Fallujah, with his Marine
Corps father's experience in the Pacific in World War II: "This isn't
my father's war." It isn't a war declared in response to another
sovereign state's attack on U.S. soil or even one justified by a clear
and present danger. It is a preemptive war, sold on the basis of at
best thinly grounded propaganda, thus, fundamentally no different from
Hitler's invasions of France or Poland, and a badly managed
clusterfuck to boot.

But, turning to another topic, I am happy to read what you say about
not owning a car. My wife and I are a very unusual American couple in
that we have never owned a car since getting married in 1969.

Cheers,

John

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John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
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Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN
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