On Feb 17, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Feb 17, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
n reply to questions about the then-impending attack on Iraq,
Speilberg
told journalists, "Bush's politics has been solid, grounded in
reality,
willing to uproot terrorism wherever it may be found...if Bush, as I
believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam is making
'weapons
of mass destruction,' I cannot not support the policies of his
government."
....But people like SS, who know nothing about the world,
shouldn't get involved in foreign policy issues.
Who should then? Experts? What kind of philosophy is this for a
putative democracy?
But wasn't this (the put-down of anyone not a complete ignoramus as
a pointy-headed "Expert") the justification so many Americans gave
themselves for supporting Ubu?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
