From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 07:32:09 MST
Great article here:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan105.html
I liked this part:
<<I saw a TV report that one UK official claimed that if not for
France's intransigence, war could have been prevented. So, it's not the
countries that are advocating war and massing troops around Iraq that
are responsible, it's a country resisting the push to war. I suppose
that makes sense: Imagine three men who have met a woman alone in a dark
alley. Two of them threaten to rape her, but one refuses to cooperate.
The two aggressors tell the third man, "It's your fault that we have to
rape her. If only we had presented a united front, she would have given
up hope and submitted voluntarily.">>
Which reminds me of this:
<<Next, they saw a city of 550,000 men, women and children, and in an
instant the city vanished; shadows remained where the men were gone, a
firestorm raged, burning pimps and infants and an old statue of a happy
Buddha and mice and dogs and old men and lovers; and a mushroom cloud
arose above it all. This was a world created by the cruelest of all
gods, Realpolitik.
"This is Discord," said Apollo, disturbed, laying down his lute.
Harry Truman, a servant of Realpolitik, wearing the face of Oliver
Hardy, looked upon his work and saw that it was good. But beside him,
Albert Einstein, a servant of that most elusive and gnomic of gods,
Truth, burst into tears, the familiar tears of Stanley Laurel facing the
consequences of his own karma. For a brief instant, Truman was troubled,
but then he remembered the eternal words: "Now look what you made me
do," he said.
And that was the third Vision.>>
http://www.rawilson.com/goldenapple.shtml
(server down, this is from google cache)
"Now look what you made me do" is what I say to myself whenever war gets
blamed on peaceniks, appeasers, pacifists, etc.
-Mike
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