File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0311, message 156


From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Iraq Body Count
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:04:04 -0800


Heidegger, page 325, Being and Time:

"Anticipatory resoluteness understands Dasein in its own essential Being-guilty. This understanding means that in existing one takes over Being-guilty; it means being the thrown basis of nullity."

interpreted:

"Anticipatory resoluteness understands itself [the US/UK Dasein as 'being there'] in its own essential Being-guilty. This understanding means that in existing the US/UK takes over Being-guilty; it means being the thrown basis of nullity [in its war plans]."

Roughly contextualized apon the world machine, which is currently devouring the US/UK presence in Iraq, must remain until it is clear that the 'being-guilty' is taken over; that existing in Iraq the coalition be resolute and carry out it's task. However there is a problem being encountered which makes it very difficult to remain in Iraq, which is the occurance of about 30 attacks against the coalition each day. If the war in Iraq was a just war, there would be 'resoluteness' and the keeping of UN Resolutions. The US/UK therefore is not morally prepared to fulfill it's commitments, and is planning a retreat in June, leaving the country in a situation of civil war, of great suffering. 

I think this is what some believe, that the purpose of the US/UK coalition is to 'correct' an injustice, but now it is reported that the total number of casualities is between 7000 and 9000 civilians, not counting hundreds of coalition casualities. That was the factor which the coalition did not anticipate in it's preliminary resoluteness. 

Thus if the war plan [operation Iraqi Freedom] is unsuccessful, the US/UK presence is 'inauthenticated' deliberately becauses of a lack of resolution, for what ever reason. 

Wonder what A. C. has to say about the keeping of UN Resolution 1483...Any time,

john

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ibc23sep03.htm

But responsibility for the current mayhem in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq is not diffused at the bottom - at the level of ordinary soldiers ill-suited for police-work in a hostile environment - but is concentrated at the top, in the air-conditioned corridors of power in Washington and London.

The Geneva Conventions and Hague Regulations, to which the US and UK are signatories, place the responsibility for ensuring public order and protecting the civilian population from violence on the occupying powers. UN Resolution 1483, which recognized the US/UK as the de facto occupying authority in Iraq, clearly bound them to these duties. But the US/UK are manifestly failing to fulfil them, compounding the death and destruction already unleashed by their invasion of Iraq. At the same time the US, in particular, resists any multilateral initiatives which would lead to an early end to its dominance over the country.

Meanwhile the latest reports from the nation's capital show that, as throughout the summer, the city's daily death toll continues to rise.


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