11-12-2008, 03:08 PM
Dawn, et al,
I've learned to be wary of distinctions -- especially when they're offered as choices to explain deep political phenomena.
"Or" is a warning sign.
Was it the Right Wing OR the Mob OR Texas oilmen OR the CIA OR Johnson OR Castro OR the Soviets OR ...
Are the Bushes Yankees OR Cowboys?
I've learned to be wary of distinctions -- especially when they're offered as choices to explain deep political phenomena.
"Or" is a warning sign.
Was it the Right Wing OR the Mob OR Texas oilmen OR the CIA OR Johnson OR Castro OR the Soviets OR ...
Are the Bushes Yankees OR Cowboys?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene