Turtle Diary of a Madman British playwright Harold Pinter in his acceptance speech for an honorary doctorate at the University of Turin, reprinted in today's Telegraph: The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal Choice bits:
The desperate plight of the Palestinian people [is] the central factor in world unrestI can no longer call Pinter a "playwright". From now on he'll always be a "playwrong" to me.
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The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of America over many years, in all parts of the world.
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Thousands of schoolchildren travel on the Underground every day. If there is a poison gas attack from which they die, the responsibility will rest entirely on the shoulders of our Prime Minister.
Accused pedophile priest Paul Shanley is out on bail, somewhere in Boston. Keep your children indoors. Meanwhile Cardinal Law is in Rome. The discussion seems to center around bankrupcy for the Boston Archdiocese and a possible successor for Law. Why shouldn't the man be prosecuted as an accessory to multiple acts of child abuse and embezzlement?
Canada finally bans Hizbollah.
Last week James Lileks linked to me(!) this week he taped a TV program with Al Roker. What a great life he has.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at December 11, 2002 10:18 AMWell... whoever the hell he is, he's right.
There can be no doubt about the instigator in this affair.... US foriegn policies have been stepping on people from all over the world for years and bloody years... influencing, blackmailing, undermining.....
~fluke
Posted by: fluke on December 12, 2002 12:00 AMFluke--You left out a few facts: Saddam's continued pursuit of WMD, his use of them in the past to terrorize his own population, and his unprovoked invasion of Kuwait that resulted in a war, followed by the international demand that he disarm himself of WMD because he can't be trusted with the full sovereignty reserved for nations who don't randomly invade and pillage their neighbors. Regardless of US foreign policy in this or that other part of the world over the years, don't all those things make Saddam the instigator of this crisis, not the US or anyone else?
Posted by: Haggai Elitzur on December 12, 2002 09:41 AM