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2004-06-28 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by 11A5S 2004-06-28 1:55:47 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 P.S. The name of the movie is "Control Room."

Posted by 11A5S 2004-06-28 2:24:16 PM|| 2004-06-28 2:24:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 At the very same time, there was another man in Kuwait. His perspective on the Iraqi situation was wholly different from Noukaim's. He wrote a special article concerning the anniversary of the liberation of Kuiwait. His name was Michael Kelly. Here is an excerpt:

Who Would Choose Tyranny?

Tyranny truly is a horror: an immense, endlessly bloody, endlessly painful, endlessly varied, endless crime against not humanity in the abstract but a lot of humans in the flesh. It is, as Orwell wrote, a jackboot forever stomping on a human face.

I understand why some dislike the idea, and fear the ramifications of, America as a liberator. But I do not understand why they do not see that anything is better than life with your face under the boot. And that any rescue of a people under the boot (be they Afghan, Kuwaiti or Iraqi) is something to be desired.

Even if the rescue is less than perfectly realized. Even if the rescuer is a great, overmuscled, bossy, selfish oaf. Or would you, for yourself, choose the boot?

I think of Michael's words often especially when I read a comment from a WWP zipperhead like antiwar.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-28 2:38:47 PM|| 2004-06-28 2:38:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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