[lit-ideas] Re: Europe's September 11 ?
- From: "Steve Chilson" <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:37:52 -0800
Oh sweet jesus, this is just too pathetic. As Elmer Fudd would say "be
vewy, vewy quiet"...(shhhhh, let's all figure out how to make the
terrorists think we're not scared and we'll grind them into little shards
of glass as a result, shhhhh)
One cannot "say no" to terrorism like some limping, pseudo illusionist
Western "war" on drugs.
What's been proven over the last few days however, is that people CAN say
no to governments that don't represent their beliefs.
The world cannot knock out the corporate dinosaur without a little
colateral damage, can it then?
And let's try some Western math: 200 dead Spaniards are somehow more
important than thousands of collateral Iraqis whose dead families' sorry
stories won't be blared on the BBC or CNN until you are weak in the these
from the power of it. If that is what it takes to bring the West back
into the family of the sane, then I'm all for it.
The new Spanish Prime Minister's words are a tonic for all this Western
hysteria:
"The war has been a disaster, the occupation continues to be a disaster.
It
has only caused violence. There must be consequences. There has been one
already - the election result. The second will be that the Spanish troops
will come back. Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush must do some reflection and
self-criticism. You can't bomb a people, you can't organize a war with
lies."
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, head of the Spanish Socialists.
Terrorism is the opposite spectrum of daily power. Yet, still the
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:52:40 -0500, "Steven G. Cameron"
<stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> david savory wrote:
>
> >>Yes, I, too, had this conversation with one near and dear. He opined
> >>that Spain's vote could be seen as giving in to terrorism.
> >
> >
> >
> > Wrongo. The will of the people was that Spain's government shouldn't
> > have given in to American political stupidity in the first place. THAT's
> > what
> > Spain's vote tells us.
>
> **Yes, absolutely. But the problem still remains. How to say, "No!" to
> unfortunate incompetents resembling GWB and yet still remain (appear)
> strong enough to withstand terrorism...?? Is this not a double-edged
> sword??
>
> TC,
>
> /Steve Cameron, NJ
>
> >
> > David Savory
> > Vancouver
> > dsavory@xxxxxxxxx
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