Of Palestinians rejoicing

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:

> "Turning now to the actual use of the phrase "the price is worth it,"
> we
> come to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's reply to Lesley
> Stahl's question on "60 Minutes" on May 12, 1996:
> 
> Stahl: "We have heard that a half a million children have died
> [because
> of sanctions against Iraq]. I mean that's more children than died in
> Hiroshima. And--you know, is the price worth it?"
> 
> Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we
> think
> the price is worth it.""
> ("The price is worth it" by Edward S. Herman, Michael Albert, ZNet
> Commentary, Sept. 26)
> 
> Without recognizing our own responsibilities ( and I don't blame Mrs.
> Albright especially for her opinion 'cause we've all supported that
> decision
> with our taxes and the election of our governments) for the actual
> situation
> we only will make a martyr and hero out of bin Laden after hunting
> him down.

This sounds like a quote ripped out of context to me, much as we
routinely do here with one another's posts.  I'd bet that Albright did
not grant the premise of the question with her response, and that this
snippet is designed to discredit our "political class" as heartless and
contemptible monsters.

I've no earthly idea how I could recover the context of this quote and
see for myself, however. Such is the miracle of the web.

By the way, Bin Laden is already a hero to the millions oppressed by
our indifference and offended by our calculated starvation of Iraqi
infants, right? However and wherever he dies he will be declared a
martyr. What do you suggest ought to be done with him and his
assistants *now*? How many people would you suggest that he be allowed
to kill in the name of his favorite brand of Islam? Should he just go
on until he gets bored and retires to a villa with a view, somewhere
with nice weather? Perhaps he won't get bored. Pehaps there will always
be some excuse, some reason for him to declare me his mortal enemy, and
try to kill me, as an American, even as I mind my own frigging business
and fail --- really, seriously fail --- to give a tinker's cuss what he
does in his adopted country.

And by the by, wading out into even deeper merde, is Sharia just
another subset of charming folkways ("memes", of course) that ought to
be encouraged to flourish? Opinions anyone? Not that it is any of our
business, of course.

Mark


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