Posted on 08/08/2005 7:28:04 AM PDT by JohnnyLawrence4U
Casualties of war. That phrase conjures up thoughts of the young drafted soldier who never returned to the farm he grew up on. It makes us think of generals ordering grand armies to sweep across plains or ships sunk by the cruel torpedoes of a submarine.
"Casualties of war" never makes us think of art critics or filmmakers. Art critics almost never have anything to do with war except perhaps as protestors, and while filmmakers sometimes end up orchestrating battles and ordering actors to fake death, they are usually detached from actual combat.
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Would someone forward this to Michael Moore, please?
And to Berg's father.
The entire referenced article deserves reading.
If I had a ping list, I'd ping them.
An excellent article. Having just spent a week with our less conservative relatives, it amazes me that they cannot see this conflict as something more than soldiers fighting in a far off dusty land. They are so blinded by their hatred of Bush (and all things conservative) that they chose not to see that it is their very culture that is at stake. Imagine if any one of them (who are so fond of talking) were told that they could not hold, or speak of, an opinion that is counter to their government's or the accepted religion of the land...or the majority's view. Boggles the mind...
"This isn't Bush's fault or Blair's fault. We are at war with a bloodthirsty, implacably cruel enemy that brooks no deviation at all from its narrow, inhuman beliefs. This enemy makes no distinction between military and civilian. This enemy wants to engulf the world in war. It wants to capture the world for its god. And it hopes the examples of Steven Vincent and Theo Van Gogh and the countless others it has so ruthlessly murdered will frighten the rest of us into submission.
It is up to us to prove this enemy wrong."
Do you know anything about this publication? Obviously they have one person who gets it.
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