No revelations here for followers of Miller, Ivins, Hedges and other quotidian biographers of the Boy King (Shrub, as Molly dubbed him), but a still poignant reminder of the utter destruction wreaked on humanity by certainty, whatever its root.
My only quarrel is with the author's mention of the US's 4,000 dead soldiers. While no less a tragedy, such a mournful statistic pales in relation to the 1 to 1 1/2 million, mostly innocent, dead Iraqis in addition to the shattered lives of countless Iraqis and our own 50,000-odd wounded and maimed who return home only to fight yet another war, that of getting their own government to provide the care it promised in the recruiting booth, but are less than prompt at delivering it in the breach.
http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5
Nigel Watson freethinker 727.493.1990 freesense@Gmail.com
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." – Krishnamurti
-A good pun is its own reword.
Nigel Watson freethinker 727.493.1990 freesense@Gmail.com
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." – Krishnamurti
-A good pun is its own reword.
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