[lit-ideas] Re: New Iranian Fatwa: Religious Law Does Not Forbid Use of Nuclear Weapons
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:47:25 +0900
On 2/17/06, Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That's truly a tragic situation. I do my best to
> hide my feelings on the matter with jokes and
> military blather, but it is truly tragic. So many
> superb people at the mercy of technological destiny.
>
>
As someone who learned to bend over and kiss my ass goodbye in civil
defense drills in elementary school in the 1950s, read _A Canticle for
Leibowitz_ as a teenager, and held my breath through the Cuban Missle
Crisis, I have to take that "at the mercy of technological destiny"
with a large grain of salt.
--
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN
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