"Coffee in Madrid" <gdeppe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Dave <dwickford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On 3 May, 19:22, Reggie <Reggie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > This story and links to all the latest news:
> > >
> > > http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/latest-news-at-a-glance
> >
> > My thinking is still adjusting from a military where victory was the
> > goal to a world of sustainable conflict management.
"Victory" is a non-sequitur, given the current false application of the
term.
One can not have 'victory' over an invisible and undefinable 'thing'.
> 'victory' means domination.
Victory means that the victor gets to write the history books.
> So... victory is out.
Certainly in the middle east it's out.... Lawrence of Arabia warned us of
this long, long ago, and history itself has proven that the region can NOT
be occupied for any serious length of time.
> 'conflict management' sounds better, as long as it is constructive in
> intent.
Do you mean 'beneficial'... or do you mean "constructive" by way of
creating
long-term profits for it's cor****ate sponsors?
;-)
"The moment war is declared... the mass of the people, through
some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed
and executed the deed themselves. They then, with the exception
of a few malcontents, proceed to allow themselves to be
regimented,
coerced, deranged in all the environments of their lives, and
turned
into a solid manufactory of destruction toward whatever other
people
may have, in the appointed scheme of things, come within the range
of the Government's disapprobation...
-- Randolph Bourne, "The State", 1918
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