http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/07/22/proxy-war/ The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman. Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/07/22/proxy-war/comment-page-1/#comment-5488 Keywords » War Crimes Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:01:12 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2490#comment-5488 [...] In a recent post I briefly alluded to the nasty bile spewing forth from the pen of Alan Dershowitz. Bile that is even more disturbing when you comprehend the actual policies resulting from such logic. Since then a number of the blogs I read have responded to Dershowitz, (see Crooked Timber, Easily Distracted, and Informed Comment) but it is billmon at Whiskey Bar who struck the right note with this clever remix: The news is filled these days with reports of civilian casualties, comparative civilian body counts and criticism of Germany, along with its enemies, for causing the deaths, injuries and “collective punishment” of human beings. But just who is “human” in the age of terrorism, when Polish and Russian partisans don’t wear uniforms, don’t belong to regular armies and easily blend into civilian populations? [...] [...] In a recent post I briefly alluded to the nasty bile spewing forth from the pen of Alan Dershowitz. Bile that is even more disturbing when you comprehend the actual policies resulting from such logic. Since then a number of the blogs I read have responded to Dershowitz, (see Crooked Timber, Easily Distracted, and Informed Comment) but it is billmon at Whiskey Bar who struck the right note with this clever remix: The news is filled these days with reports of civilian casualties, comparative civilian body counts and criticism of Germany, along with its enemies, for causing the deaths, injuries and “collective punishment” of human beings. But just who is “human” in the age of terrorism, when Polish and Russian partisans don’t wear uniforms, don’t belong to regular armies and easily blend into civilian populations? [...]

]]> http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/07/22/proxy-war/comment-page-1/#comment-5489 antropologi.info - Social and cultural anthropology in the news blog Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2490#comment-5489 <!--%kramer-pre%-->to the streets of downtown Beirut honking in their cars and waving Italian (and Brazilian!) flags in celebration after the World Cup Final just a few days ago! >> read the whole story: Personal Thoughts From A Besieged Country For more comments see Proxy War by Kevin Friedman and A protracted colonial war by Erkan Saka. UPDATE: GlobalVoices analyses / sums up some interesting coverage by bloggers from Lebanon and the Middle East >> read Globalvoices: Lebanon Resistance <!--%kramer-post%--> to the streets of downtown Beirut honking in their cars and waving Italian (and Brazilian!) flags in celebration after the World Cup Final just a few days ago! >> read the whole story: Personal Thoughts From A Besieged Country For more comments see Proxy War by Kevin Friedman and A protracted colonial war by Erkan Saka. UPDATE: GlobalVoices analyses / sums up some interesting coverage by bloggers from Lebanon and the Middle East >> read Globalvoices: Lebanon Resistance

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