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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:12:35 +0000
Subject: gulf
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


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Anthony wrote:

> David wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> How many Iraqi lives, for the American media, do you think equal one
>> American life?
> 
> I don't know. Why don't you ask the 1 million Iraqis that Hussein has
> killed.

Interestingly, an abyssal failure looms, faced with the 'current situation',
when a dismal numbers game shows its face or an opinionated chat concerning
'justification' (or not) arises and rambles on, but, worse than any of this
(although not unexpected) is the awful gulf that exists in popular parlance
between 'action' (read: a continuous destructive ruthless violent
bombardment) and '(continued) diplomacy' (read: incessant compromising
'high-level' chat), such that the one is the so-called 'only' alternative to
the other; this 'either/or' is a conflict between a 'war' and a 'peace' but
does not come from peace as the non-conflictual no-taking of no-sides that
would be the being a-side, the third way (the neither/nor of 'peace'
{diplomacy} and 'war' {bombardment}) towards a peaceful day, now blown away,
blowing in the wind today....

let us spray...

good day

michaelP



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gulf Anthony wrote:

> David wrote:
>
>> All,
>> How many Iraqi lives, for the American media, do you think equal one
>> American life?
>
> I don't know. Why don't you ask the 1 million Iraqis that Hussein has
> killed.

Interestingly, an abyssal failure looms, faced with the 'current situation', when a dismal numbers game shows its face or an opinionated chat concerning 'justification' (or not) arises and rambles on, but, worse than any of this (although not unexpected) is the awful gulf that exists in popular parlance between 'action' (read: a continuous destructive ruthless violent bombardment) and '(continued) diplomacy' (read: incessant compromising 'high-level' chat), such that the one is the so-called 'only' alternative to the other; this 'either/or' is a conflict between a 'war' and a 'peace' but does not come from peace as the non-conflictual no-taking of no-sides that would be the being a-side, the third way (the neither/nor of 'peace' {diplomacy} and 'war' {bombardment}) towards a peaceful day, now blown away, blowing in the wind today....

let us spray...

good day

michaelP

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