[Peace-discuss] The message of wiki-leaks…

[John W.]

Hmmm...a pearl.  Interesting metaphor.  So this is a GOOD thing, right?



On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:



> American liberalism is a closed oyster into which a mere grain of sand -
> the Wikileaks documents - has penetrated.  Here we see that echt liberal
> Frank Rich, equal to the challenge, beginning the process of covering the
> offending element with a first layer of nacre, by the same living process as
> is used in the secretion of the mother of pearl covering that lines
> liberalism's shell...
>
> Behold - a pearl!
>
>        Kiss This War Goodbye
>        By FRANK RICH
>        Published: July 31, 2010
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=2&hp
>
>
>
> On 8/1/10 11:37 AM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:
>


> *From Paul Street on a ZNet article:*
>>
>>
>> “The lesson; no, the message; no, um, the takeaway of the leaked documents
>> is
>> not: if only they knew how badly it's going, how hard it's going to be,
>> then the
>> administration would bring an end to the conflict. Rather, the takeaway;
>> no, the
>> message is that even knowing how badly the war goes, they persist. The
>> lesson is
>> not the Administration's blindness, but its dogged intransigence, its
>> total
>> commitment to the endeavor, regardless of the means or outcome, regardless
>> of
>> the possibility of reward, regardless of the cost, regardless of
>> suffering,
>> regardless of sense and duration. The United States has an institutional
>> commitment to the occupation of Afghanistan. It can't be argued out of
>> it.”*[7]*
>> *
>> *
>> One of the best reflections about Wiki-Leaks and related matters. See
>>
>> http://www.zcommunications.org/revealing-moments-by-paul-street
>>
>
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