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it really does appear that what i wrote earlier obtains: your view of what the troops in iraq are capable of doing is a straight function of your position on the war in general. and i think this is exactly how the right media appratus would prefer it: it is of a piece with their approach to any number of other issues--generate enough mutually exclusive information as to make factually based debate nearly impossible, force positions back onto disposition and then try to relativize the whole affair into a matters of "opinion"
personally, i do not care about folks' general aesthetic disposition relative to a vague idea of "our boys" in the context of this ridiculous colonial war.
what does interest me is the question of what--if any--correlation there might be between assumptions concerning american troops that operate at the level of the administration itself and its opposition to the international war crimes tribunal. maybe by linking these matters you can get behind the marketing of war to the kind of issues that animate bushworld's collective sense of realpolitik....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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