"everyday prattle"

[Otto]

I wouldn't call him an idiot but defending the Serbian ex-dictator is 
indeed strange.

Otto

John Carvill wrote:

>Yeah, Pinter uses 'killing Serbian children' to pull heart-strings and grind his inexplicable axe over Kosovo.
>
>He may be right about Bush, Blair, Iraq, etc. (I agree with his views on those), but his support for Milosevic makes Pinter an idiot too.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Otto
>Sent: 13 October 2005 15:49
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: "everyday prattle"
>
>The War against Reason, by Harold Pinter:
>There's an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the Irish 
>town of Drogheda the citizens were brought to the main square. Cromwell 
>announced to his lieutenants: "Right! Kill all the women and rape all 
>the men." One of his aides said: "Excuse me, general. Isn't it the other 
>way around?" A voice from the crowd called out: "Mr Cromwell knows what 
>he's doing." That voice is the voice of Tony Blair -- "Mr Bush knows 
>what he's doing."
>(...)
>http://www.redpepper.org.uk/natarch/x-pinter-dec2002.html
>
>
>Michael J. Hußmann wrote:
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>>John Carvill (JCarvill at algsoftware.com) wrote:
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>>>Great. Give the prize to a member of the INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO
>>>DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC.
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>>While I despise Slobodan Milosevic as much as everyone else, Pinter was
>>awarded the Nobel price in LITERATURE; it's not the peace price.
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>>
>>Michael J. Hußmann
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