[lit-ideas] Re: ye olde political mindset
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:40:00 -0700 (PDT)
Eric,
Welcome back ! We have missed you. I don't know how
this list has managed lately without your incessant
warmongering, your juvenile comments, your bad jokes,
your blatant misinformation, and your simplistic
thinking. We are lucky to have your back on board.
O.K.
--- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Phil: Rather, we need more visceral response, more
> revulsion
> to the death and destruction, and more care for
> peace.
> Instead of working out a plan that will ensure peace
> for
> generations, the politicians should be working out a
> plan to
> stop the shooting now.
>
>
> My visceral response is to seek a complete rout of
> the Hez.
> I'm not revolted by the destruction of Hezbollah's
> facilities, infrastructure, and staff. Plus if Hez
> houses
> civilians in military target areas, I am revolted by
> them,
> rather than by Israeli missile strikes aimed at
> non-civilian
> targets.
>
> My visceral response is to seek peace for
> generations first,
> while stopping the shooting as soon as advantageous.
>
> If Hez is an infection ravaging a potentially
> healthy body,
> i.e., Lebanon, then stopping shooting now would be
> equivalent to stopping antibiotics to administer
> painkillers
> because of a revulsion to the patient's groaning.
> The
> patient will stop groaning, sure, but the infection
> will
> spread and become intractable. Plus the patient will
> develop
> a resistance to the painkillers, which will be
> needed later
> as the infection spreads.
>
> On the other hand, since our opinions hold little
> weight
> with the way of the world, maybe it is better to
> have a
> visceral revulsion to the death. Granted that makes
> us
> puppets to the propaganda efforts of the Hez, but
> what does
> that matter?
>
>
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