Well, Ive always appreciated the breadth here, so am sorry to see you leave, Fred.
Doug
On 2011-03-04, at 9:08 AM, Fred Pollack wrote:
> (This is a minority, of course, but they do seem to come from USA; and I
> recall one then here who explained to me, as if to an idiot, at the time of
> the invasion of Iraq (I think) that if your principles don't deliver the
> expected return then you change your principles.... And there was the
> gentleman who declared victory on the grounds that quote now a woman in
> Kabul can fuck whom she wants and get a hamburger... But I digress)
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> You know, I still think that if women in Afghanistan could fuck whom they
> wanted, that would be a major component of victory. Even without
> hamburgers. I was naive, in '03, to think that Bush would commit to
> nation-building in Afghanistan, when he and his kind don't see the need for
> it here. And Iraq, of course, was indefensible.
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> Otherwise: after ten years I'm out of here. No point. Andrew, all the
> best. Max, I only responded to a few of your diary-poems but they have
> humor and sweetness. Doug, despite the huge difference in what we value in
> poetry, I could generally rely on you for a few thoughtful words, for which
> I thank you.
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