well you did produce an elaborately sardonic post......
and I am really fed up by the way that you don't seem to be able to accept
any subtlety of position on this situation. You seem to love pushing
arguments to violent extremes. Well ok. It's elegant and sardonic.
In the meantime young men - mainly from poor backgrounds, with little
education and few options are killing other young men - mainly from poor
backgrounds, with little education and few options. And the women,
children, and other irritating life forms who happen to be in the way.
It must be nice to have such deep reservoirs of irony to draw on.
Mine have failed me.
Liz
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Subject: Not The Answer
I have an elaborately sardonic post to write, but I'm too tired; perhaps
someone else can execute it for me.
The idea is to have a series of paragraphs detailing in escalating order of
severity the mutilations of body and spirit wrought by the Iraqi regime, and
to conclude each one with the refrain "Violence is not the answer". Then
comes a series of paragraphs detailing attempts made by Iraqi nationals to
injure that regime by use of force, concluding with the refrain, "sadly,
they
were mistaken. Violence, as the officials charged with their rehabilitation
took the most delicate pains to make clear to them, is not the answer".
Finally a couple of paragraphs on the brave resistance of the fedayeen and
the
Republican guards, with particular emphasis placed on their miraculous
ability to defend their country using special mortars and machine guns that
only kill imperialist aggressors and that, especially, are fitted with
state-of-the-art Islamic technology which prevents them from producing
disturbing images of eviscerated tiny infants. "How fortunate we are, "
concludes the piece, "that these upstanding defenders of liberty have
recognised the true motives of the coalition of neo-colonialist gangsters
and
their murkily cosmopolitan backers from the world of international finance,
and have borne in mind throughout their heroic resistance the ever-shining
truth that Violence - Sickening Baby-Disembowelling Violence - is Never The
Answer."
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