File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2003/postcolonial.0303, message 118


From: "Salil Tripathi" <salil61-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: "We had a great day. We killed a lot of people."
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:56:02 +0000



gr3g,

Dexter Filkins is a real reporter, and this is a real article. I'm surprised 
you'd want anyone killed for expressing an opinion. I have, in my mind, the 
following sentence from your post:

>
>after outbursts
>like that the amerikkkan soldiers deserve to be killed
>by the iraqis.
>

There are many similar outbursts by many people around the world, including 
extremists: Narendra Modi who says nasty things against Muslims in Gujarat; 
mullahs in the Middle East who routinely call for Death to Israel at their 
Friday sermons.... I could go on and on. Does the universe you describe, in 
which "outbursts like that" mean American soldiers "deserve to be killed" 
allow for consistency, and should all of them be killed, too?

Salil

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