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loquitor: i wasn't making a particular policy argument. the general principle was that it is a bad bad idea to have too much political unity in the military else the military start to imagine itself a political bloc capable of acting in what it sees as its own political interests. the american situation now is bad enough. last thing that would improve it is the entrance into domestic politics of some fascist junta. diversity of political views is in principle good in the military. i like disagreement at that level. but then again, i understand the military as a necessary evil, with heavy emphasis on the last word.
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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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