RE: Cultural imperialism, in the raw

"Speechless" to me implies "surprised". Sorry if I misunderstood.  

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From: Kendall Clark [mailto:kendall-4GNy1lrxftmrG/[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [Bonobos] Cultural imperialism, in the raw


On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:26:40AM -0600, Bornstein, Jack C [GMG] wrote:
> I don't know why you're so surprised.  Your typical enlistee is not the
most
> highly educated and worldly individual.  

First, who said I was surprised? I'm sickened, disgusted, revolted,
nauseated, revulsed, agitated, disturbed, and brought low. But, sadly, not
surprised.

Second, you assume that "another soldier" is an elistee, but there's no
evidence for that assumption. He or she might be a graduate of one of the
service academies. I mean, it's not like the upper echelons of the military
are full of the sort of people who would rather do anything than go to
another country and kill strangers...

As Spielberg never tired of pointing out in Schindler's List (to take one
recent, well-known example), being a "highly educated and worldly
individual" is perfectly consonant with inflicting horrible evil and madness
upon others.

Kendall Clark

On Tue, Apr 1, 2003, Kendall Clark wrote:
> >From the latest Harper's Weekly,
> 
>    Another soldier was unimpressed with the ruins of the ancient city of
Ur,
>    the birthplace of Abraham. "I've been all the way through this desert
>    from Basra to here and I ain't seen one shopping mall or fast food
>    restaurant," he told a British reporter. "These people got nothing.
Even
>    in a little town like ours of 2,500 people you got a McDonald's at one
>    end and a Hardee's at the other."
> 
> Who cares about the *cradle of civilization* when there's no Hardee's?
That
> simply leaves me *speechless*.
> 
> Kendall Clark
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