[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:56:41 -0500
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-09-21/news/news.html
Okay. Deep breath. You wanna see the Freedom Standing Tall? You
wanna see smoked sand niggers? God Bless America!
http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/bbs/forum23.html
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Mere scare words from Andreas. Just body parts. Blood. People
wearing brains on their shirt. Insurgents looking like stewed
tomatoes trying to wear clothes. Normal war images without the
smells. So what?
The difference? Technology. Sniper videos. Stills of corpses.
What countless generations of soldiers have seen and written
about--presented here as jpegs and mpegs.
The point? War is hell. Yeah. So? Is that supposed to make people
suddenly advocate cut-and-run, hunker under their bedsheets
like scared rabbits, rage and cry against fate?
That old line from Joseph Brodsky:
Sickle, skull and crossbones:
an absurd pack of lies.
Rather death when it comes
Will have your own two eyes.
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