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somewhere, somehow, somebody musta kicked you arou... Frozen streams and vapors grey, cold and waste the... i'm a reasonable man, get off my case What gives you the right to fuck with our lives: C... nothing left inside they were picking up the dead out of the broken glass some things you lose, some things you give away What gives you the right to fuck with our lives: CXXV What gives you the right to fuck with our lives: C... you have no control Wednesday, January 03, 2007
I see you crawling in my garden, subhuman, subhuman:
Leave it up to Ephraim Karsh and The New Republic to explain that the reason Arabs are perturbed by Saddam Hussein's execution is that "in the Middle East, physical force remains the main--if not the sole--instrument of political discourse." Ah: a gussied-up way of saying that the primitive Arabs understand nothing but violence; Saddam was the most violent; and that explains why they're upset. Notice that in this formulation, Saddam is the most Arab of all Arabs -- or, put another way, all Arabs are Saddam Hussein in miniature. It's a short step from there to arguing that We Will Not Wait On Events As Dangers Gather, and so it's time to start taking some preventative measures against millions of Neo-Saddams.
Of course, an alternative explanation is that the manifold injustice of the lynching of Saddam Hussein -- done during the beginning of the Sunni observance of Eid by Shiites -- is enough to horrify the civilized among us, despite the fact that the man on the gallows is deserving of no sympathy. --Spencer Ackerman
Can I be a pedantic fuckface for a second? |
