As to the first sentence: Understanding
is no solution.
Now continuing with Iraq, Clinton and Bush:
Frankly I believe that anyone who
didn't see what Clinton's process was is either not looking or is
culturally simple and should have a little "lead blossom" for their wine
and give up cocaine. This is a tough time and tough language is
necessary. Clinton did it from the air in Kosovo but frankly there
was little of "international value" in Kosovo but the people.
Iraq is different. Bush started his war
in the Arab equivalent of the Metropolitan museum of Art or the National Gallery
calling it Sadaam's Palace. The man is neither
Hitler nor Stalin. Both hid their culture because it was
external to themselves. Sadaam is the culture and that is the
way the Arabs I have known think. He is not evil
because he is not European. He is evil by our
laws but is he so according to theirs and how? Their religious
nuts don't like him because he is too Western. It is much too
complicated a story and the Versailles solution that America put him under after
the Gulf War works no better with Iraq then it did with Germany after WW
I. Only Cuba has prospered under such sanctions and then only
because they had the Soviets to come lie on the beaches.
The answer? The Catholics have it I
believe. I've said it several times here. To stop
history you must forget. "Never Forget" doesn't
work. We all must forget. But we must also
know and accept history but forget punishment and rage or it consumes
us. That is the law of vendetta and our system has passed it
by. I talk about my history here on this
list because no one knows it and that makes the society stupid
and repeat the genocide in relation to programs with my
people. But when I talk about it people assume that my passion
is anger. Not so. It is frustration with historical ignorance
and the substitution of theory for practice that destroys people's
lives with impunity. "Oops, you mean they didn't find any
weapons of mass destruction?" "You mean all of the
Artists lost their jobs and culture declined because we accepted Supply and
Demand as our economic religion? Sorry, I guess I just
goofed." When it comes down to the bottom line we would rather
talk and act than think and act and therein lies the problem.
There is no responsibility and reparations are vulgar.
The Catholics have a good point when they say
confess and ask forgiveness. But their problem has always been
their inability to calm the rage if someone doesn't give
forgiveness. They feel humiliated. That is always
the test. I quoted two Jews: Jesus and Freud. I won't
quote them again because I don't have time. I have to do my
job. But it is in my past posts to Karen from last night.
Both has to do with solving the problems locally before you go out
and deal with other people's lives. No one thinks ten years down the
road. The judgment that we would have to treat Sadaam like he
was a "rodent problem" is just a piece of Western nonsense. If you
don't want the animals to get into your garden then you have to plant your
garden differently for they are just as much children of the Creator as you
are. Only if they attack your house do you have the right to stop
that. Many years ago, not doing that was a mistake that we made when
we helped them through that winter in the first place. But then
again if we hadn't then what would the world be?
Ray Evans Harrell
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