[Reader-list] Wikileaks and the End of America!

[Rajkamal Goswami]

You all blind people. May be you needed wikileaks to understand amrika
and its policies. most of us didn't have to wait for Mr. Assange's
revelations on the www.

And seriously most of the arguments that you guys make just sucks.
Nothing is radical or balanced. You all are just regular flavor. I
don't know why speak when you have nothing new or novel to add.

On 10/25/10, Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Taraprakash
>
> Your soft corner for the US of A is revealing.
> Now don't give me this bullshit that since some people don't want the US to
> leave Iraq the people should start having second thoughts about their dream
> of throwing the US out of Iraq. A colonizer however benevolent is still a
> colonizer.
>
> During India's struggle for freedom, there were many people who didn't want
> independence and were happy under the British.
> Many of them were those who had prospered under the British rule. Though the
> transfer of political power to the Indians (elites) have made no difference
> yet i take being free from a colonial ruler as a positive thing.
>
> " Many of us do that, reduce issues to black and white, and take one side."
> Now, i firmly believe that this is not the case with many of us. Many of us
> are fence-sitters. They remain non-committal to the end. They want to eat
> their cake and have it too. Many of us have lost their capacity to reduce
> things to black and white. Many of us don't believe in taking one side for
> most of us are not sure on which side we are. So its no virtue in deluding
> yourself by thinking that many of us reduce the issues to black and white.
> The goal must be towards making issues clear (black and white). And if your
> goal should be otherwise you can revel in the greyness of the things, in the
> aesthetics of deferral. But you can't defer things ad infinitum. A day comes
> when you have to take sides, make an ethical choice. Either you are for
> HITLER or AGAINST. Either you are for US or against.
>
> Thank you for quoting Kabir. I am sure Kabir has something profound to say
> here but if i commit the heresy to take it very literally i would say its a
> good thing if no grain remains sabut between two wheels for then we shall
> have flour to feed ourselves. Its metaphoric understanding again brings us
> to many people's favorite hobby-horse: violence-nonviolence dyad. So i
> rather not tread those paths again.
>
> However, i am still at loss as to why you have such love lost for America!
> America!
>
> Best
>
> Pheeta Ram
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Rajkamal