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- From: Eric <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:38:46 -0500
>> I don't want America to be a superpower. I want it to be like me : )
You are a superpower. Deal with it.
On the other hand, your ability to compare Bush to Hitler, to equate US
Cold War tactics to Iranian involvement in Lebanon, Iraq, and elsewhere
-- is both ahistorical and breathtaking.
>>It surprises me that you don't see that your calling Amadinejad a
psychopath is every bit as over the top as my calling Bush a psychopath.
I didn't call the Loon a psychopath. I called his version of Allah a
psychopath. Auden, remember? A poem set in Manhattan?
What huge imago made
a psychopathic god ...
And further from the Auden poem:
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
[Soon to be incinerated by followers of a different psychopathic take on
Allah.]
Repeating their morning vow;
'I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,'
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the dead,
Who can speak for the dumb?
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