Saddam Hussein is a rogue and undoubtedly a scoundrel of the
lowest order. However, we share responsibility for the suffering
of innocent people, the holocaust that has been going on in Iraq
over the last 10 years.
Al Pearson
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tye" <dtye@VSS-INCORP.COM>
To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Better than Monday morning?
> Moral equivalency between economic sanctions on a rogue state
like
> Iraq and flying hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center?
The
> suggestion is simply stunning on a day like today. If we can't
see the
> difference, then surely we are lost.
>
> David Tye
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "charles_almond_pearson" <charles_almond_pearson@MSN.COM>
> To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Better than Monday morning?
>
>
> > Exception: if you're a mother shooing flies away from your
dying
> > baby in the streets someplace in Iraq, where on average 5000
> > people have been dying from UN sanctions since the end of the
> > Gulf War, according to a series that ran in the Hartford
Courant
> > last October.
> >
> > Don't mean to belittle your observation, Mark, but I felt the
US
> > supported UN atrocity needs at least as much mention as
today's.
> >
> > Al Pearson
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tarallo, Mark" <Mark.Tarallo@BRIDGE.COM>
> > To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:49 PM
> > Subject: Better than Monday morning?
> >
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I certainly do not want to trivialize today's tragedy and
> > deaths, and I
> > > sincerely hope that none of you
> > > have loved ones that were hurt, but I must say that, as a
> > journalist based
> > > in Washington who
> > > had a busy day "working" the story (a disgusting phrase, I
> > know), I must
> > > confide that
> > > running through my head throughout the workday was the
Percy
> > concept,
> > > War is better tham Monday morning.
> > >
> > > This came to mind especially in trying to self-assess the
> > spirit in which I
> > > discussed today's events
> > > with concerned friends and family members.
> > >
> > > It makes one wonder.
> > >
> > > --Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: David Alan Beck [SMTP:dabeck@IUPUI.EDU]
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:17 PM
> > > > To: PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu
> > > > Subject: Re: Novelists now, in the spirit of Percy
> > > >
> > > > John,
> > > > I agree that DeLillo fits somewhere in the spectrum.
Speaking
> > of DD,
> > > > has anyone had a chance to read the article in this
month's
> > Atlantic?
> > > > There is an article that, for the most part, is arguing
that
> > the
> > > > contemporary authors who are so revered by critics and
> > academics, are
> > > > wearing the emperor's new clothes. He focuses on DeLillo,
> > Cormac McCarthy,
> > > > and Paul Auster. I haven't had time to read the entire
> > article but did
> > > > glance over it. I'll have to admit that, for me, blasting
> > away at DeLillo,
> > > > one of my favorite living writers, makes me regard him
with
> > suspicion.
> > > > Though he does have a point about the stilted dialogue in
the
> > works of
> > > > these writers, a sin that no one can accuse Percy of.
Yet, in
> > DeLillo, I
> > > > always viewed the "flat" dialogue as part of the theme
and
> > overall effect
> > > > of his works.
> > > >
> > > > Regardless, I look forward to reading the article (partly
due
> > to a
> > > > co-worker who bought the argument and challenged me to
> > respond).
> > > >
> > > > David Beck
> > > >
> > > > "The only true joy on earth is to escape from the
> > > > prison of our false self, and enter by love into union
> > > > with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of
> > > > every creature and in the core of our own souls."
> > > >
> > > > -Thomas Merton
> > >
> >
>
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