3 unmentionable wordsTom Engelhardt speaks
the unmentionable words about the war in Iraq: the air war, the
construction of permanent bases, and the role of mercenaries. On the latter,
about 600 mercenaries have been killed in Iraq, wich when added to the 3,300
official US war dead is close approaching 4,000. Englehardt should continue
building his "Devil's Dictionary" based on the linguistic contortions of the
Iraq war. Ambrose Bierce wrote the first and best Devil's Dictionary towards the
end of the 19thC. I think it was he who said that "war is God's way of teaching
Americans geography." If so, very cruel.
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Posted: Wed - April 18, 2007 at 02:41 PM |
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I was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now work for a non-profit educational foundation in the US. Before moving to the US with my family I taught modern European history at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. I have studied at universities in Australia, Germany, the US, and Britain and consider myself a citizen of the world and a supporter of no particular nation state. [More]
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