[lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:36:30 -0500 (EST)

Oh, come on Lawrence.  The whole thing is word game.  We went from War on Terror to the Long War.  At the same thing we didn't and still don't know a Sunni from Shia in almost all of Washington.  Please, it's all bellicose nonsense.  The fact is, we beat up Iraq to teach somebody else a lesson.  One would think that first one plays catch up, then one goes to war.   We did in reverse.  If it weren't so tragic, it would be downright funny. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Helm
Sent: Jan 13, 2007 12:21 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat

If you want to play word games and blame the lack of a definitive coherent Militant Islamic definition on us, that may make you feel good, but it won’t get you very close to understanding. We didn’t make the Middle East up.  It is what it is.  We are just playing catch up trying to understand it – some of us and deal with that part of it that comprises a threat.

 

Lawrence

 

From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Amago
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:05 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat

 

We took out Iraq to teach the 9/11'ers a lesson.  That's pretty rogue.  Well, maybe botched rogue, a subcategory of rogue.  See, if we didn't botch the job it wouldn't matter that Saddam had no WMD and no ties to al Qaeda.  But, we did botch the job.  Now Iran is a rogue nation.  Is that better or worse than being a botched rogue nation? 




 

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