maandag 11 april 2011

What are we doing? What we are doing.

Three workers in Nebraska have experienced an "unplanned radiation exposure." I assume this means that sometimes workers experience "PLANNED radiation exposure."

No doubt members of the military cause "unplanned civilian casualties" with their guns and bombs. And "planned casualties"? I am sure our troops experience "unplanned casualties" of their own--and I wonder, given our generals' vulgar attitude toward suffering and death, if our troops don't experience "planned casualties" as well.

Every time we kill human beings in our wars--in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Libya--those human beings, once dead, as declared to be enemies. That, of course, makes sense: we are the good guys, and perversely, in our absurd moral system,good guys kill bad guys.

I know that many Americans--many of my friends and former friends--will object to what I have said: not because they deny it or disagree with it, but because they don't want it said.

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