There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature:
Barbara Kingsolver: " Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.... : "
Det eviga.
Väl formar den starke med svärdet sin värld,
Väl flyga som örnar hans rykten;
Men någon gång brytes det vandrande svärd
Och örnarna fällas i flykten.
Vad våldet må skapa är vanskligt och kort,
Det dör som en stormvind i öknen bort.
Esaias Tegnér, 1810 — mer Tegnér hos www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/tegner
Massförstörelsevapnen
As Joseph Cirincione, a top weapons expert at the Carnegie Endowment, put it, the purported existence of those weapons "was the core reason for going to war with Iraq and the reason we had to go now If we don't find fairly large stockpiles of these weapons, in quantities large enough to pose a strategic threat to the United States, the president's credibility will be seriously undermined and the legitimacy of the war repudiated."
That concern is largely absent in the U.S. media, where "liberation" is now a code word that smoothes over any irritating questions one may ask when a Christian superpower invades the heart of the Muslim world. Its partner phrase, "the building of democracy," is also all the rage, as if real democracy was something you could create with Legos or SimCity software.
Källa: commondreams.org/ L.A Times 22 April 2003
Ur en schweizisk tidning april 2003
Grundloser Krieg
Saadi (irakiske höge vetenskapsmannen Amir el Saadi, som överlämnat sig till USA-trupperna) blieb in einem Interview mit dem ZDF bei seiner Darstellung aus Vorkriegszeiten, dass es in Irak keine biologischen oder chemischen Waffen gebe. Der Angriff auf sein Land sei grundlos gewesen, betonte der Wissenschaftsberater von Saddam Hussein.
US-Präsident George W. Bush hatte den historisch beispiellosen "Präventivkrieg" in erster Linie damit begründet, dass der irakische Machthaber mit Massenvernichtungswaffen nicht nur die Nachbarländer, sondern die USA sowie die ganze Welt bedrohe.
Die bislang vergebliche Suche nach den illegalen Arsenalen wächst sich für die USA damit zu einem wachsenden Glaubwürdigkeitsproblem aus.
"Mit jedem verstreichenden Tag wird die amerikanische Glaubwürdigkeit in Frage gestellt, besonders von anderen Nationen, die über eine Militäraktion von Anfang nicht begeistert waren", warnte vor ein paar Tagen die "New York Times".
Källa: http://www2.news.ch/ (24 april 2003)
Upp — Ned — Einar — magnetkamera
STRASBOURG, Wednesday – The European Court of Human Rights will today hear the case against seventeen NATO-member nations for the bombing of Serbian state television during the 1999 bombing campaign.Källa: Balkannews okt 2001
The complaint has been lodged by a survivor of the attack and close relatives of the sixteen people who died when NATO targeted Radio Television-Serbia on April 23, 1999.
The relatives say the seventeen countries are responsible even if the attack took place under the auspices of the NATO military alliance to which they belong.
The countries are: France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Britain.
America is a notable absentee since it does not come under the jurisdiction of the Strasbourg-based court.
Ejnar Ekström — Bok — Eld — Irak — info — U p p
