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another effect of the press pool's repetition of pentagon "public diplomacy": buttressing the illusion that "terrorism" is an adequate category for describing what is happening now in iraq, of pathologizing these actions and in turn justifying the anything goes approach the bush administration has adopted. of course the americans should outsource torture, hold people indefinitely without trial, engage in huamn rights abuses on a significant scale--the Other is nuts.
you could apply the same argument about indiscriminate killing to any air raid, any artillery barrage, any battle. the fact that the people doing this indiscriminate killing wear uniforms does not make it any less indiscriminate. but in that situation, folk like ustwo are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the agents responsable for the carnage...not so when the war is being carried out by folk who do not wear uniforms.
curious, that.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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