Re: OT: Poets against the war

On 2003.02.01 21:16 Mangiat wrote:
> John suggested reading:
>
> > http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/poetindex.htm
>
> Thank you, John. We really need somebody reminding us America is not
> only George W. Bush. Here around the ill-concealed
> we-are-very-sad-but-after-all-you-deserve-it feeling that September
> the
> 11th engendered in many European hearts is getting more and more
> evident,
> no matter what our politicians say (our politics has always been
> somehow
> remote-controlled and conditioned since the end of WWII). Many (myself
> included) are no more leaning towards a position against the war,
> rather towards a position agaist the US. And that's extremely sad.
It isn't just Europe like that. It's Australia, too. The thing is, we
should be hating ourselves: so much of what Australia is doing is
because our goverment wants a free-trade agreement with the US and
doesn't know what America wants, so it's doing everything. But at the
same time, that so many non-Americans have issues with America suggests
that they're doing *something* wrong (even if it's just having such
influence over the rest of the world. Maybe we aren't ready for a world
government or similar yet).

Though as poems go, I don't think they sound especially good...

Tristan.

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