"good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable"

[Paul Mackin]

Doug is salivating again.

        P



----- Original Message -----
From: <barbara100 at jps.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: "good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable"


> Doug Millison asking David Morris:
> "So you're saying that American lives are worth more
> than Afghani lives, I guess..."
>
> Of course. He's been saying it for months.  It's at the very heart of our
> problems with him (and so so many  like him).
> Imagine it, Doug, not one American polled considered the attack on
> Afghanistan an overreaction.  How would you explain that?
> Are we just cold-blooded, or are we so manipulated by
> the image the media sells us, we can't see ourselves as we are, or even as
> we appear to others?  We're an arrogant people; no other way for me to see
> it.  I don't wish tragedy, or justify it, but I think it's "good that
> Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable."  When we're too
> arrogant to learn from our mistakes, we're forced to learn the hard way.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:49 AM
> Subject: "good that Americans now know what it's like to be vulnerable"
>
>
> > So, "Morris" is saying, nothing good can come from the Sep 11 tragedy,
but
> > we can smash Afghanistan to bits and permit the  tragedy of civilian
> deaths
> > in that country because it's good to go after bin Laden, no matter who
> gets
> > hurt in the process?  So you're saying that American lives are worth
more
> > than Afghani lives, I guess, at least when it comes to choosing the
means
> > to achieve the Bush Administration's foreign policy goals.  Sadly, I
> expect
> > that a lot of people in the US really do believe that's true.
> >
> >
> > Morris:
> > The obvious answer is the cause of this new awareness which can in no
way
> be
> > called "good."
> >
> > Richard Stock <rstock00 at yahoo.com>
> > Why is it such a bad thing that "two-thirds or more of respondents
outside
> > the United States said it was 'good that Americans now know what it's
like
> > to be vulnerable.'"?
>
>