tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6084668096573385425..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Mosul, nearly doneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36085634889719948602017-07-02T01:41:38.360-07:002017-07-02T01:41:38.360-07:00Vassilis, I guess the reason would probably be tha...Vassilis, I guess the reason would probably be that you are 1. conscious, 2. conscientious (have a conscience), and 3. historically aware (putting you in an extreme minority, of course). <br /><br />The "technological society" cannot make or contribute anything but more of itself (i.e. more death).<br /><br />On the brink of the outbreak of Iraq I, nigh on three decades back, I did a long interview with D. Elsberg, at his home, in the midst of which he unexpectedly broke down and wept uncontrollably for some minutes, over the "village we had to destroy to save".<br /><br />He had been there. Everything he had thought and believed, up in smoke and flames, in that moment, along with the sad homes and belongings of all those villagers who had been "saved". <br /><br />All that is forgot now. To destroy is now the order of the day, but who or what is being saved becomes more than ever an open question. <br /><br />The IS cult is horrible, all agree, and "defeating" them in Mosul is meant to be a "victory". <br /><br />But for whom exactly? For the "allied commanders"?<br /><br />Did the IS cult materialize out of thin air -- or out of this world, where any great grievance, even if insane, is now justifiable, on grounds this world is as it is? TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15182321540184163752017-07-01T23:43:41.440-07:002017-07-01T23:43:41.440-07:00Why does the news from Mosul take me back to Vietn...Why does the news from Mosul take me back to Vietnam? Because 'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it', a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.com