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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (4983)	10/14/2002 11:17:42 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

Junior says he is "sick" about the latest sniper shooting. cnn.com At various times he is sick, or furious, or livid, or really bummed out. He's run out of adjectives to tell the American people that he only cares about oil. TP

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (4983)	10/23/2002 3:14:34 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

W's morality comes up when Bill Moyers interviewed Dr. Robert Jay Lifton last Friday night on Moyer's show, NOW. For complete transcript see: pbs.org Here is an excerpt about the cycle of violence createde by 9/11 and the US feeling omnipotent. [The Cycle of Violence] Bill Moyers interviewed Dr. Robert Jay Lifton last Friday night. Dr. Lifton feared 9/11 would lead to a cycle of violence. For complete transcript see: pbs.org MOYERS:" What a moment. Our government in Washington has amassed a huge armada in the Middle East even as Washington residents can't walk safely around the streets of the nation's capital. How do you explain such dissonance, such circumstances? ROBERT JAY LIFTON: Yes. In a way, it's not dissonance, because I think the amassing of the armada that you had described, the plan to invade Iraq, has to do with an American intolerance of any vulnerability and a sense to annihilate whatever is perceived as threatening us. That's a very dangerous kind of impulse, and now it's bound up with a sense of being the only super power, and therefore omnipotent in what we can do in the world. But the sniper outside of Washington is a reminder, a kind of metaphor, that we can't control events, that all kinds of difficult and destructive behavior is always going to occur, and that we are vulnerable, and that to think we can destroy all vulnerability is an illusion." *********** Robert Jay Lifton is a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. And over his long career, he's studied-- among many other things--the aftermath of the Hiroshima bomb, Nazi doctors, and the cult that released poison gas in the Toyko subway. He is, in short, one of the world's foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each other. I'm glad to look to him for some answers on the madness of our time. pbs.org