Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 04:07:54 +0400
From: "Dr. Salwa Ghaly" <sghaly-AT-sharjah.ac.ae>
Subject: Re: Lions and Tigers and Embeds, Oh my!


Hi Ken,

Who would've thought that we would "witness" another "war that never 
happened" and on the same terrain?  I was waiting for you to give up on 
the Pravda briefs out of D.C. and to return to this forum with some 
relevant questions.:)   Between then and now, what has happened?  For 
one thing, I notice the colossal impact the internet is having in 
disseminating alternative news as well as graphic and raw pictures of 
bodies and buildings eviscerated.  Also, the presence of news media 
networks representing the "other's" point of view and engaging CNN/Fox 
in a war of images, is another noteworthy development.  No longer do you 
see the war as the Paris/Dakar desert rally.  Believe it or not, war is 
real.  War is messy.  It is so at once on the  level of lives lost and 
cities destroyed and the contending discourses and narratives...

Just some thoughts from someone not quite in the eye of the storm.  At 
least for now.

Salwa




Kenneth Rufo wrote:

>
> Get your war on!  Is it time to begin talking about Baudrillard once 
> again?  Or is it even needed this time around?
>
> Ken
>