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Thanks FILENAME Enter the .html filename here: The standard convention used is the title with all white space removed and a lower case w prefix. The "w" prefix is a nice way to keep all the files organized in one place in an alphabetically sorted subdirectory. e.g. Title = wTitle.html TITLE Enter the title here: HEADER Put anything extra that needs to be in the header here, such as META tags etc.: BODY ATTRIBUTES Change any attributes here (Bg color; text color etc.) Warning! Do not use quotation marks. BODY Enter your main text in this box. Use html line-break and paragraph-break tags. Hitting enter is useful for clarity in editing these files but will not affect the way these files appear in a browser. See the Reload and Insert Breaks link below to automatically insert html breaks. <CENTER><br> <TABLE width=85%><br> <TD><br> <CENTER><FONT size=+3> Political Context </FONT><br> <br> <!-- to add: a box with link to forum on international response... --><br> <br> <BLOCKQUOTE><br> <br> <P><br> <FONT size = -1 color=aqua> We will be adding to these articles, links, and discussions as soon as we can - please send all relevant URLS to <br> links@global-dialog.org <br> <br>with the Subject LINKS<br> </FONT><br> </BLOCKQUOTE><br> </CENTER><br> </TD><br> </TABLE><br> <br> <CENTER><br> <TABLE width=80%><br> <TD><br> <BLOCKQUOTE><br> <FONT size=+2> An Essay by Susan Sontag </FONT><br> <P><br> <i> from the Sep 18 New Yorker online </I><br> <P><br> <P><br> The disconnect between last Tuesday's monstrous dose of reality and the<br> self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public<br> figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed<br> to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to<br> infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a<br> "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free<br> world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken<br> as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many<br> citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word<br> "cowardly" is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill<br> from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those<br> willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage<br> (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of<br> Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards.<br> <P><br> Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is<br> not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live<br> in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this<br> was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that<br> America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of<br> office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by<br> this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they<br> stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and<br> perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of<br> American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to<br> American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what<br> constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not<br> being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously<br> applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed<br> contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing<br> rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent<br> days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.<br> <P><br> Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be<br> a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the<br> politics of a democracy - which entails disagreement, which promotes<br> candor- has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let's by all means grieve<br> together. But let's not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical<br> awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may<br> continue to happen. "Our country is strong," we are told again and again. I<br> for one don't find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is<br> strong? But that's not all America has to be.<br> <br> <br> </BLOCKQUOTE><br> </TD><br> </TABLE><br> <br> <br>

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