AW: Not Just About Iraq (Was: London)

[Keith McMullen]

 >>>We Germans learned from WW2 and the Holocaust that in the end 
there's no way
trying to blame the political leadership alone. Every soldier in 
Guantanamo,
Abu Ghureib or elsewhere on this planet is personally responsible for 
what
he/she is doing in the name of his/her country and/or his/her God.<<<

It's not about blame. It's about a complex web of dynamics that goes 
far beyond individual or national responsibility. Each individual and 
nation plays a role in every other 'individual' or 'national' act. Bush 
is playing a role in the perpetuation of terrorism which leads to 
attacks by Islamic fundamentalists. The notion that an individual has 
some kind of free will separate from dynamics far more powerful than 
any tiny individual is an inspiring notion, but is just an illusion. 
Cf, Gravity's Rainbow for a study in the complexities of war and 
terror.