mark ganzer wrote:
As distasteful, and soul-saddening as the practice is, reading the op-ed rantings of right-wing war-mongering bloviators is an exercise that can unearth unimagined nuggets.
With a pulitzer prize under his belt and the austere
credentials betokened
of Fellows of the American Enterprise Institute to
establish his impeccable
criciculum vitae, we anti-war citizens of planet
earth owe our gratitude to
the mighty Kraut for putting on public record the
neo- / theo-con,
war-mongering crowd's opinion that aerial bombing of
civilian targets and
infrastructure is a terrorist tactic.
I second that motion. Now that we're agreed on that
point ... it is time to
consider fully and carefully the appropriate
response towards nations that
sanction such acts of terror and that countanence
such war crimes.
Never before could I have imagined a circumstance
under which I could type
these four words in the following order, in utter
sincerity:
Thank you, Doctor Krauthammer.
From his Monday column (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701725.html
)
"When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right -- legal
and moral -- to carry the fight until the aggressor is disarmed and so
disabled that it cannot threaten one's security again."
"Britain was never invaded by Germany in World War
II. Did it respond to the
Blitz and V-1 and V-2 rockets with "proportionate" aerial bombardment of Germany?"
...
"In perhaps the most blatant terror campaign from the air since the London
Blitz, Hezbollah is raining rockets on Israeli cities and villages."
Politics and war, make for strange bedfellows.
Mark Ganzer
Mark,
I find myself agreeing with George Will now and again
these days. I think the old right-left paradigm is
breaking down.
Melanie
I agree with you that the old left-right paradigm is breaking down. The breakdown was virtually pre-ordained in the specific matter of these "wars of choice - invasion and occupation" which INVARIABLY end up costing far too dearly - in treasure, surely, and in the blood, more impurely. The ending of the American War upon the Vietnamese people was mandated to Nixon by the council of the "Wise Men" who said: this must cease (because war is only good for some businesses - and carries the risk of putting all other businesses out of business). Why these lessons are not made a mandatory part of this nation's core educational ciriculums (history and business) saddens and bitterly disappointments me. So many issues, so inter-related. Chief Seattle said it so well: "All things are connected." Thanks so much for time and feed back and for the great and important work you do. Warm regards, Mark
Mark,
Thanks for the sweet note. Bump will be back on
Saturday at a new location
http;//www.beltwaybump.com
We got hit by a 'bot trackback spam attack on
Wednesday morning and the server host firm took us
offline for using too much bandwidth. We are moving
to a new server, hosted by a friend, with a new build
of the Movable Type platform which is more resistant
to spam attacks, thanks to pogge. I'm very lucky in
my friends.
If you go to the new URL, you'll see a placeholder
page until the new intallation is complete.
This has been a week of anxiety and learning lots of
new skills along with great gratitude to the generous
friends who have stepped up to help.
I hope to see you at the shiny new Bump as soon as we
get her back online.
Melanie
--- mark ganzer <ganzerm@msn.com> wrote:
> Melanie,
>
> It looks like "Just a Bump" is having some technical
> difficulties.
>
> I hope those difficulties aren't taking too large of
> a toll on you
> and your support team.
>
> Don't know how long one must live to fully
> appreciate the simple
> truth expressed in Joni Mitchell's tag from Big
> Yellow Taxi --
>
> Don't it always seem to go
> That you don't know what you've got till it's
> gone
>
> You do such a great job selecting the important
> stories of the day.
> And you commentaries - such pith, such passion.
>
> (And for introducing me to Real Live Preacher -- the
> one place I
> know to go when the crush of events seem to become
> unbearable).
>
> Thanks for caring enough to give so much.
>
>
> Mark
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