RE CarmenCozy RE (a number of) things:
1) Misanthropicus X3, And so it goes… – no comment;
2) [...] I, Carmen, am personally glad [[...] Shall we be so fortunate to pull off another cycle of Rumsfeld-Cheney-Wolfowitz? [...] (None of this incendiary bullshit with Wright and Ayers, etc.) [...]”
Lovely lines – last time I heard them was ningttime, around a bubbling cauldron during some Frazier Forrest/HuffPo retreat/invokations & group needles sticking in Dick Cheyney’s photo (I was there to help some OD cases);
3) CarmenCozy RE Evan Sayet: “My reading of Edward Said gives me no evidence that he was seeking “to champion Arab and Islamic TERRORISTS” as you allege. Can you please give a citation that would help me to understand the severity of your judgement? Until then, Diane’s views are the more empirically correct.”
CarmenCozy, some people (of course, the bitter, un-enlightened sort) will sure have a problem with your “epirical correct” problem – use as defense my prior mention to the bubbling cauldron in case of being questioned.
As to Said, he was a very bright fellow and pretty knowledgeable in his basic field (some literatures) – unfortunately Said was a carrier of the Lummumba/Gandhi/Dalai syndrome and the Manhattan liberals & NYT fell for it. Supporting terrorism, yeah, that is a bit too much – yet his post-colonial, righteous posturing sure was ancouraging for those needing just a push for blowing themselves (& others) to smithereens in cafes. And this comes from someone who for very long had harsh words for the Isreli policies in the West Bank & Gaza.
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