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cniq_cniq

5-16-2007 9:09 AM

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cniq_cniq says:

"We were learning in our school today
All about a country far away,
Full of lovely temples painted gold,
Modern cities, jungles ages old.
And the people are so pretty there,
Shining smiles, and shiny eyes and hair . . .
Then I had to ask my teacher why
War was making all those people die.
They’re so pretty, so pretty.
Then my teacher said, and took my hand,
“They must die for peace, you understand.”
But they’re so pretty, so pretty.
I don’t understand."

"This is exactly the mentality I was brought up with, concerning Vietnam. It took a while to discover the truth: I guess I was in my late teens. I was also well familiar with a famous poster: 'War Is Dangerous for Children and Other Living Things.' Uh-huh: It turned out that the longed-for Communist “peace” was far more dangerous to children and other living things. Which, by the way, was more dangerous for Anne Frank? War or 'peace'?"

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5-16-2007 9:13 AM

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Thing is, no one ever looks back. I doubt Bernstein, Comden,
Green, or Streisand ever gave a thought to those pretty Vietnamese
children after April 1975. The artists had made their stupid,
unthinking little point; and if hell then descended on those children,
who cared? And if the Americans are forced out of Iraq, and the Iraqi
government falls, and the victors make the blood flow even more greatly
— will anyone care? Of course not. We will have “moved on,” never
glancing back.

After Voigt sang that song, the audience
applauded with unusual energy and meaning. They just loved it. They
would, wouldn’t they?

And, hey, how about those
Cambodian children?...
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