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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 07:07 AM Original message |
Becoming What We Seek to Destroy, by Chris Hedges |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. The silence is deafening |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Because we cannot imagine Obama giving that order. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. "The Buck stops here." Harry Truman |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. More killing to cover the asses of the politicians and military in a lost war. |
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Beam Me Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It isn't a "lost" war -- it was a phony, fictitious "war" right from the beginning. |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
4. I've never seen a "progressive" as intent on judging and lecturing other progressives |
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Beam Me Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. When all else fails, kill the messenger. |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:13 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Part of it is because Hedges is playing the same card a lot of politicians did |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Did Hedges "switch sides" on this? |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I'm not familiar with that part of Hedges' record |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:44 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I may be mistaken |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I think you've conflated Chris Hedges with someone else |
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Beam Me Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Your criticism makes no sense. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. "Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden." That went down the memory hole, to be sure |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. maybe Hedges has experienced a closeness other progressives haven't |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I've seen war... |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 12:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Then you should know better. |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
13. Becoming? |
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Beam Me Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Good point. Hedges fails because he accepts the rationalization of the "war". |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
14. We should leave and let the Taliban take over. |
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Beam Me Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 01:37 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. I can't agree with that. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
19. Or, perhaps, Al Queda and the Taliban are becoming like us. Just less effecient killers. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
23. Bump |
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