Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:16:27 -0800
From: arnab chakladar <chaklada-AT-usc.edu>
Subject: RE: peter arnett



actually arnett when asked on air (during his nbc apology) what it was he 
was going to now do said that he was going to contritely swim to some 
unnamed pacific island. salil was, i think, ironically invoking arnett's 
own comment given how quickly he's rebounded and found new employment.

At 04:11 AM 4/1/03 -0500, you wrote:

>Salil,
>I've benefited from many of your posts to this list but can't resist picking
>up on your comment that now that Arnett is gainfully employed, he need not
>"go to the South Sea island for swimming."  I'm assuming this wasn't part of
>Arnett's itinerary and was rather a suggestion that he will not be relegated
>to some remote & idyllic backwater. Interestingly in this same 'backwater'
>the US laid the foundation of the military terror that it is today, by
>dropping the 17-megaton nuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll (1,200 times the force
>used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) & where Truman--against UN law--annexed &
>militarized Micronesia, an area larger than the continental US. Mystifying
>colonial terms such as "South Sea" & "South Pacific"---popularized as
>isolated romantic spaces by US military servicemen/writers like
>Mitchener--perpetuate the erasure of this region's entanglement in four
>centuries of Euro-American military occupation and nuclear
>'experimentation.'  It seems that erasures such as this allow the US
>administration to displace its contemporary and historical 'weapons of mass
>destruction' onto Iraq.
>
>If I've misread your point, my apologies, and do tell Arnett to steer clear
>of the toxic waters off Bikini & the Tuamotus (where France breached the
>Partial Test Ban Treaty w/17+ megatons). Best, Liz
>
>
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