Selective Memory

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In a message dated 12/11/2001 9:58:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
rfiero at pophost.com writes:


> It seems to me that an ever-widening context would 
> include a very large number of dead civilians at the hands of 
> the U.S. and its proxies in the prosecution of war by other 
> means.  I really don't think you'd want any mention of the 
> total context.  I believe that you have dissociated yourself 
> from those ugly details yet your tax dollars supported those 
> efforts and your elected representatives planned and 
> implemented those acts.  Oh, right.  Your take on Chomsky is 
> negative because Chomsky reduces the supposed complexity to 
> simple motives and bodies rather than over-intellectualizing 
> and abstracting them away as Foucault did.  The folks in power 
> are not hawkish rednecks but opportunists of the first order 
> who have emptied the public treasury, suspended the Bill of 
> Rights and are fighting terrorism with unspeakable 
> terror.  Well, that's one way to do it.  The undeclared war 
> proceeds and is constantly referred to as a "war against 
> terrorism"  but appears more as a contest as to who holds a monopoly on 
> terror.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Finally!  someone who is neither a cheerleader for the "war on terror" (one 
of the stupidest phrases since the "thousand-year reich") nor a 
post-modernist intellectual fop.

Tyl
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