[lit-ideas] Re: The supergun that couldn't shoot straight
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 00:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
--- Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Omar wrote or quoted:
*It was a quote from a book review. (It's not actually
the first sentence of it.)
> The US has not learned anything from 55 years of
> > foreign-policy debacles.
>
> ck: This type of blanket lede announces that the
> speaker is not intending to
> discuss nor debate an issue. He speaks to his
> converted, for others will
> tune out the know-it-all tone that is a hallmark of
> those without
> credibility or authority. Rhetorically, as first
> sentences go, this one gets
> a shrug with a request to turn the page. But then
> ideologues usually don't
> care what others think.
*To state that the US has had 55 years of foreign
policy debacles does not necessarily entail that it
has not had not any successes. But foreign policy is
not exactly the US strong side, and it has never been.
Anyway, Carol, why don't you post something more
intelligent, on this subject as well as on
psychotherapy and others. You seem to be doing little
except disparaging other people's contributions.
O.K.
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