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this looks like war to me.
it looks like a classical guerilla-type war.
maybe it would have been easier for those in bushworld to say it had they not sent cowboy george onto the aircraft carrier with the matador stuffing in his flight suit to declare the war over.
which is in all probability why the machinery now has to refer to what is happening in iraq as an "insurgency" as "terrorism"--when it is obvious, even in this era of reporters in bed with the military, that what obie said about it above is correct.
it also seems obvious that in terms of indiscriminate killing of civilians that the americans are doing quite alot more of it than are the "insurgents"--declarations of intent and lines about "precision bombing" notwithstanding.
the gap that seperates the viewpoints of folk who opposed this war from those who support it is strange and persistent. it seems to me that supporting this farce requires a considerable amount of intellectual labor, erasing or rationalizing a huge amount of dissonant information in order to keep intact a space where it is possible to simply shake your head and express regrets about deaths that seem inevitable because the war is itself so.
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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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