[lit-ideas] Re: The Iran Charade
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:26:29 +0000 (GMT)
--- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert: Advocating not invading Iraq might be a
> consequence of one's being a true pacifist; but
> saying that this is the 'wrong war, at the wrong
> time, in the wrong place,' is to advocate
> prudence, not pacifism, unless one is a pacifist
> making a bad joke.
>
> Eric: Another alternative is that people say
> whatever they think supports their views, whether
> or not they believe in them. One could say this is
> the 'wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong
> place' merely because it supports one's
> emotionally-based convictions.
True. But you have no evidence whatsoever that
opponents of the war were closet pacifists.
> And you have no idea how many literary folk have
> sent me copies of his speech
tough shit, Eric!!
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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