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September 12, 2002

On Anger - I wrote

On Anger - I wrote about my continuing, unrequited anger yesterday.

Andrew Sullivan writes about the anger we all share, today:

It occurs to me that my somewhat insistent view that we need to fight back against the roots of this horror might be misconstrued as a love or passion for war. I hope not. In fact, I think some of the anger many of us felt a year ago is related to our hatred of war. I loved the innocence of America when I came here almost twenty years ago. The one strain of American isolationism I warmed to was the natural and so American desire to be left in peace on this continent, to start the world anew, to live as if the routine of war and threat and danger were forever dispelled by the vast oceans that surround this continent. I love the fact that Americans actively hate war, its trappings, its necessities. No lover of freedom loves war, which always limits freedom. But war was brought here - a vile, almost medieval religious war, fueled by hatred and resentment and paranoia and failure. Their campaign, alas, is not a metaphor. They are brutally opposed to such things. Even imagery is banned under their austere form of Islam. They read literally; they hate with divine dispensation. Our campaign against them and their sponsors and supporters in Baghad and Damascus and Ryadh and Tehran is not therefore a function of our love of war; but our determination to end it, and to liberate that part of the world from the despots and psychoses that now hold it back.
If you wake me at 4AM, I won't be angry because I enjoy anger - I'll be angry because I want to get back to sleep.

Food - "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants".
--A.Whitney Brown

Posted by Mitch at September 12, 2002 03:32 AM
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