[lit-ideas] Re: Eric's hypocritcal wars
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:17:52 +0900
Phil,
I certainly have no interest in telling Eric how to live his life. And
that Eric suffered a severe trauma by being in New York on 9/11, I do
not doubt. For that I would and, in fact, did in the year after 9/11
cut him some slack.
But I detest the attitudes that Eric displays in his posts in re the
war in Iraq. They play directly into the hands of the rapacious,
fearmongering criminals who compose the current administration and
exemplify the kind of response to appeals to our basest emotions that
tyrants throughout history have used to drum up support for their
tyranny.
I may sound cold when I say this. We lost a building and three
thousand people. We have, in return, invaded a sovereign nation,
decimated its infrastructure and slaughtered and maimed tens of
thousands of its people. If Eric and others like them feel comfortable
advocating policies that will lead to more slaughter, mayhem and
maiming, I feel no qualms about labeling them chickenhawks, warmongers
and cowards who stay home and let others do the dying and suffering
for them. Their merely emotional suffering pales in contrast.
In other respects, in discussions of poetry, say, or advertising I
find Eric a very amicable fellow. I could not care less if he wears
purple shirts, eats chocolate covered spiders, cohabits with sheep,
or, alternatively, is a closet Puritan who buys his suits at
J.C.Penny's. Lifestyle, literature, theories of language, let a
thousand flowers bloom. This matter, however, is too tragic for sweet
tolerance.
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN
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