From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: WtP and justice
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:56:46 +0000


Rene de Bakker wrote:

>Every word has a counterword, Anthony, and the French don't stop to be
>the opportunists they have always been. As we are.
>I said, it is the *signal* that counts.
>I'm not anti-American, I'm anti-onedimensional.
>You, as the strongest, cannot afford that.

And the other Nietzschian possibility? You are not anti-onedimensional, you 
are anti-stronger, putting on the mask of anti-onedimensional so as to avoid 
facing this weakness, because you, as the weaker, cannot afford that. No 
less Nietzschian of an analysis.

>And did you (or Rumsfeld) know that the word 'Old-Europe' is ... 
>Nietzsche's?
>

It doesn't take an historian to know that the "Old-Europe" to which Rumsfeld 
was referring was the France that did absolutely nothing when Hitler moved 
into the Rhineland, in open defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. The French 
army could have easily driven Hitler back at that point, and Hitler knew 
that, so when the French did absolutely nothing, he concluded that what 
France lacked was not the military power, but the WILL. Nietzsche would turn 
over in his grave at the allegation that this was his Europe.

Anthony Crifasi


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