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if you read the morning's papers you can almost hear the voice of the government of georgia asking: "where's nato?"
george w bush is watching the olympics, taking advantage of being lame-duck; cheney has been doing what cheney does, which is to threaten Consequences, except without being able to specify what they are. in the un, there are problems of language in the security council and another which has to do, as was the case with iraq, with military action regardless of justification carried out by a permanent member state. with this, the problem of structure is made self-evident again--the security council is set up to enable the permanent members total impunity while preserving the illusion of diplomatic engagement. meanwhile, it is impossible to feel much of any sympathy with georgia, except maybe in a david and goliath kinda way, because they decided to move against south ossetia.
meanwhile, again, lots of civilians die.
the olympics continue.
everything is normal.
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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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