---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:15:11 -0700 From: Stephen Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virginia Tech - Andrew Sullivan
from recovering neo-con, Andrew Sullivan. To the point. Imagine that this kind of massacre happened every day. Imagine a police force that was far too small to even respond to most of them. Imagine this occurring repeatedly for years until the perpetrators and their accomplices became the de facto power-brokers throughout the land. Imagine the shootings also being accompanied by the brutal torture of victims. Imagine families never having finality on whether their own siblings or parents or children have been murdered or not. This is Iraq today. Now think of the justified rage many feel at the VT campus police chief and university president for misjudgments. Now imagine them presiding over several more massacres in the same place. Ask yourself: why do we not feel as enraged by those responsible for security in Iraq? Are those victims not human beings too? Are they not children and mothers and fathers and sons? Are we not ultimately responsible for them, having destroyed the institutions of order in their country? (forward from Susan Schultz, the poet, publisher in Hawaii)
