Hi David
I know what you mean about weary - well, not of politics, but weary of a lot
of the repetition. I remarked to a friend that the same loops of those
buildings falling etc began to have a Stan Brakhage effect... but now - I am
back on radio only - it's more like adverts every few minutes with breaks
for President Quixote to report back on his plan to rid the world of evil
when I said personal letter, I meant personal level. Guess I am weary.
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 16 September 2001 16:11
Subject: Re: POETRYETC Digest - 14 Sep 2001 to 15 Sep 2001 (#2001-149)
| Lawrence
|
| Tho' I'm really feeling somewhat weary of politics right now:
|
| > I don't think these questions unanswered, except perhaps the last
question
| > when posed at a personal letter. The answers are very clear, but they
are
| > too often rejected
|
| What I really shd have wrote was 'unasked', or rather 'too often unasked',
| instead of 'unanswered' and that in context of much of the public climate
of
| discussion of a few days ago.
|
| > bin Laden himself appears to be a USA creation - financed and trained by
| > CIA.
|
| Yup.
|
| Best
|
| Dave
|
|
| David Bircumshaw
|
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| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
| To: <[log in to unmask]>
| Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 2:30 PM
| Subject: Re: POETRYETC Digest - 14 Sep 2001 to 15 Sep 2001 (#2001-149)
|
|
| > | Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:03:52 +0100
| > | From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
| > | Subject: Re: WTC
| > |
| > | The unanswered question about this tragedy is why did the terrorists
| > become
| > | terrorists? What does the US do that makes the poor of the Middle East
| > hate
| > | them so much? What makes someone want to become a suicide-bomber?
| >
| > I don't think these questions unanswered, except perhaps the last
question
| > when posed at a personal letter. The answers are very clear, but they
are
| > too often rejected.
| >
| > The rejection, its nature, is also the province of poets, because
usually
| > it involves changing the sentence subject and / or leaping a couple of
| > stages in the argument
| >
| > | I entirely agree with your criticism of the Taliban though.
| >
| > But trying to wipe them out would be no better than trying to eradicate
| > cholera without affecting the water supply.
| >
| > The Taliban must take individual responsibility for their actions, as
must
| > those in USA and UK, and Saudi Arabia and Israel and USSR; but the
| > phenomenon seems to me entirely explicable given the slow burn world war
| > which has been fought over their country.
| >
| > bin Laden himself appears to be a USA creation - financed and trained by
| > CIA.
| >
| > L
| >
|
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