[Peace-discuss] Some sense on Sunday morning

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Sun Jun 15 14:45:13 CDT 2008


I think it's a mistake to see US leaders' actions as irrational.  They're 
rational but vicious.  See Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival?" for a discussion.

LAURIE wrote:
> I guess that this raises the question of whether or not such a rational
> discussion can be considered rational in an irrational world where
> irrational actions, discussions, claims, and accusations hold sway. It makes
> one think that they are living in the theater of the absurd to have little
> islands of rational and reasonable discussion and analysis in an otherwise
> absurd environment.
> 
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