[lit-ideas] Re: Experience of War
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:05:00 -0400
No peripheral conclusions except when we need them to be because the truth
is unpleasant. I stand by my comments.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/9/2006 12:00:40 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Experience of War
>
> Andyrene: So you're saying that Lawrence is
> shut down?
>
> What amazes me about your style of discussion is
> the weird peripheral conclusions you draw from
> people's posts. It has an unsettling quality to
> it, sort of like watching an edgy Andy Rooney
> playing Grand Inquisitor in a surreal TV version
> of the Dostoevsky.
>
> What I offered had nothing to do with Lawrence. It
> was an account of several old men who had seen
> enough mayhem and hardship for countless lives,
> and yet who reacted to 9/11 with a call for
> massive retaliation. You'd think their long lives
> would have shown them the senselessness of war.
> Instead they knew a response was necessary.
>
> That's why I mentioned them. War as the folly of
> the young? Not always. War as the punishment old
> men exact upon the young? Not always.
>
> Knowing you have a committed enemy is not the same
> as yearning to fight that enemy.
>
>
>
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