Right ON AK, and right ON Kent: this kind of triumphalism, as the head of
ICRC said recently, will only make America even more callous. The dead and
wounded children are the people that Henry said late last week that he
would be "willing to risk" for just such a "victory."
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil
deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and
destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of
every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
-- Solzhenitsyn
At 04:49 PM 4/9/2003 -0400, Anastasios Kozaiti wrote:
>Hen, I realize that this is a windfall for the Bush Administration and
>the Arabists who pictured such a tableau. But, I guess the ones who put
>up the "Go Home Yank" signs in downtown Baghdad don't count...
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Henry Gould
>Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:58 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: 1st & last channeling
>
>from Washington Post today:
>
>"Baghdadis poured into the streets in celebration, waving at U.S.
> troops and tearing down posters and busts of Hussein.
>In a
>scene
> reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraqis
>attacked a giant
> statue of Hussein with sledgehammers. With the help of
>U.S.
> Marines who ran a cable from their tank to the 20-foot
>tall statue,
> they pulled it down, literally yanking the image of the
>fallen leader
> out of his boots."
>
>(these are the ones I'm in solidarity with).
>
>Henry
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