Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 15:57:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Butz <dbmarley-AT-spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
Subject: Re: Why Throw Americans Out of Middle East... by Taliban



Or is it... Why throw the non-Americans off the Poco list?


Yes... another lesson in the tendency of words to spin away from their
enunciator (if not their site of enunciation). I originally threw the bit
about Labour Day in to take the edge off a couple of other crusty comments
I'd made to the listserve... and of course to wish everyone on the list 
(yes... ALL who might liked to be wished so) a Happy Labour Day. But, to
my amazement the list has now become preoccupied once again with spelling
to the neglect of a discussion of perhaps more direct links between
imperialism,  the postcolonial condition, retaliatory bombings, and
Taliban anti-semitism.
Lesson: leave the edge on... at least it might be the intended edge. I
don't know whether to sigh or marvel. David.



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