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To: mishedlo who wrote (228292)3/15/2003 11:30:42 AM
From: Tommaso   of 436258
 
There is all sorts of nuttiness going around. The situation sounds more like England on the eve of the First World War than anything else I can think of. But it also somewhat resembles the spirit in the United States at the outbreak of the Civil War. There was an edition of the Charleston News and Courier that reported the onset of shelling of Fort Sumter: the front page resembled a sports page. In England in 1914 many people were spoiling for a war to start. The current anti-French and superpatriotic feeling, and the readiness to speak of "treachery," compares to attitudes in England. As the war got under way, it became dangerous to play Beethoven's music in England because he had been German.

The glibness with which various commentators discuss various "scenarios" for the war on Iraq sounds like sports writers speculating on team strategy.

I recall a poem that Robert Penn Warren wrote as the Vietnam War was heating up. It was advice to himself, and it went: "Talk no shit, and remember / There is more than one kind of same."
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