Re: [WAR] New Postwar Memes

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 10:02:18 MDT

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    --- Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com> wrote:
    > 1) Is Cuba next? Why not? It'd show the arab world it's about
    > dictators in general, not just muslim ones.

    I expect North Korea is next, preceded by one more exercise at the UN
    to demonstrate that that institution has been irreparably damaged by
    the diplomatic sabotage of certain former world powers who are bent
    only on spitefully acting as a 'counterweight' for no real moral
    purpose, only intended to prevent the US and its culture from helping
    to expand extropy around the world.

    >
    > 2) The growing cult of Iraqi well-listeners. Indicative of trauma?

    No, there are many middle eastern facilities where they have
    constructed underground access to wells, so that one doesn't have to go
    out into the sun (or into a sandstorm) to get water. Recall that
    Jerusalem, for example, has one such historical example which was
    actually used by the Isrealites to invade the city when they first took
    it over.

    >
    > 3) 'There's no way to know how many Iraqi soldiers and civilians have
    > died'. I hear this now every day on ABC news after they show their
    > chart with coalition casualties.

    "There is no way to know" is intended, semantically, to be equated with
    "countless", and therefore "excessive", "barbarous", and "with callous
    disrespect for humane values". That there were so few US casualties and
    so many Iraqi casualties is now going to be played by the anti-US media
    as somehow unfair, dishonorable, and downright evil.

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    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                         - Gen. John Stark
    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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