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  • From: "Eckert, Robert G SPC MIL USA FORSCOM" <robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 58, Issue 9
  • Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:44:15 -0500

It was a Thursday evening, not a Wednesday afternoon--but my excuse still is
boredom.

Percy was a philosopher, not a philosopholigist. He would be debating this
war.

The premise for the war was presumably false. CBRN WMD have not been found.
(Although absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).

What may be occurring is a forced reconciliation between Sunnis and Shiites.
1300 years of conflict within Islam being dealt with.

There is a time for meeting aggression with greater aggression in order to
reduce aggression. Every cop knows this.

War is controlled aggression. Messy, yes. But no army conducts themselves
better under such strenuous circumstances as the US Army.

The US Army is in a unique position to force a world peace. We are the most
powerful, and also the most multicultural army the world has ever seen. The
only ethnic group I have not seen represented is the aboriginal Australians.
And I bet there is at least one in our Army.

BTW, the most decorated soldier in my unit is a Muslim from Ghana.

This war goes way beyond American Imperialism, it is religious reconciliation
stuff.

Bob





----- Original Message -----
From: marcus AT loyno.edu
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:49
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 58, Issue 9
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> I think Bob has every right to raise the questions he does
> (though not sure they warrant posting on this list), but I
> think using WP as a reference point or touchstone for
> verification of events and policies in the present
> world--such as the decision to invade Iraq--is asking for
> impossible. My experience with Percy is that he was
> predictable and unpredictable, always nuanced in ways that
> caught me by surprise. And the reason for this is that he
> remained alert and ingtellectually (and spiritually) active
> all the way to the end.
>
> I think Percy probably would not see history an allegorical
> figure. "Will history agree...." Obviously, yes and no for
> a very long time. Maybe forever. Does "history" agree on
> the Crusades? Are you going to submit this question to
> Southern Baptists? Moslem scholars?
>
> Other may have different opinions.
>
> Marcus Smith
> New Orleans
>
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> > Would Percy consider the present war in Iraq a waste of
> > time or the beginning of something good?
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> > Are we wasting lives and money on foolishness, or are we
> > beginning the process of communication and community
> > formation between disparate cultures that has since time
> > immemorial begun with bloodshed?
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> > Can Islam, Judaism and Christianity find common ground
> > upon which we cooperate with each other, not kill each
> > other?
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> > I think Bush made the right decision. Mistakes, of course.
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> > Will history agree that the effort and lives and injury
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