[Peace-discuss] Being and nothingness among American murderers

[E. Wayne Johnson]

under-score.

The cognitive dissonance does certainly threaten to wash the victims 
over the cliff of existential despair...
a likely fitting end point to relativism...

I think they Were All Bozos on that Bus.  How many empty seats?

"The Naked Lunch" might be out of print or out of vogue or something.  
Or maybe they are fighting back by dropping pirated and bootleg copies 
of "Nausea:"

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> As the administration rapidly expands its illegal war in Pakistan, its 
> propaganda cover slips like a bad toupee.
>
> The US has to pretend we're killing "terrorists" in AfPak (there's no 
> Congressional authorization for anything else) when in fact we're 
> fighting the resistance to US control of the entire Middle East.
>
> The word this week was "existential." Tangling her syntax in a way 
> that might interest a psychoanalyst, SecState Clinton told a House 
> committee, "I think that we can not underscore [underestimate?] the 
> seriousness of the existential threat posed to the state of Pakistan." 
> (Maybe she meant "underscore enough.")
>
> "Existential threat" is a term of art from Israeli propaganda: the 
> nuclear-armed Israeli government insists that its existence is 
> constantly threatened by non-nuclear states and of course Gazan 
> schoolchildren (and in a sense it is).
>
> But the memo on "existential" has clearly gone around in the Obama 
> administration: "US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned Pakistan 
> that the Taleban poses an 'existential threat to the democratic 
> government of the country'" [BBC]; "Gen. David Petraeus warned 
> Congress Friday that the United States faces a 'tough road" ahead ... 
> what has been missing still is “the kind of whole-of-government 
> approach that would result from a complete commitment by the Pakistani 
> senior leaders ... that will be necessary to face up what is again an 
> existential threat to Pakistan” [Politico].
>
> But perhaps the American officials simply mean that the sneaky Taliban 
> are about to distribute the works of J.-P. Sartre to unsuspecting 
> Pakistanis.  That would make more sense than what they're actually 
> saying.  --CGE
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