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TTigerX2 01/07/2009 12:06 PM Report
Charlie's interview with Harold Pinter was an exceptional opportunity to witness this great mind in an setting most appropriate for a man of well chosen words. To that we all owe Charlie a great deal of gratitude for the opportunity. Yet, Mr. Pinter managed to reveal Charlie's fundamental weakness of naivete towards the dark face of the American dream, which Pinter so accurately pointed out. Yes, America is fundamentally fascist when it is used by those like Bush and Cheney and the war machine. It uses its power for evil because it can. In the right hands, and hopefully we got it right this time, it can be a light to the world. Pinter was exceptionally accurate in his portrayal of the American character.
pung 01/06/2009 05:54 AM Report
on the political side of pinter, my issue isn't with him, it's with how charlie sounds like a blind faith bush right winger and how he just opposes pinter because he is shocked by what he hears. a lot of rose's political views are very transparent even though he attempts to mask them. he tries to be fair and unbiased, but it is obvious what he really thinks.
DavLev 01/05/2009 03:41 PM Report
Had this writer, who is also known for his pacivism, lived in England, during a successful German invasion during WW2, he and his family would have been among the first to be rounded up by the London Police. It is a well known fact, that the NAZIs had compiled lists of Jews, others and organizations, to exterminate. They, intended, as in France and other occupied countries, to use the local police to do their dirty work. While I understand the greatnest of his literature, he seems to have missed the most important aspect of life itself, the necessity to defend oneself from evil. His pacivism is a form of denial about responsibility to oneself, one's family, one's love ones and one's country. Where was he when the Iraqi dictator murdered over 500,000 of his own people, forced the "Marsh Arabs" to relocate, transferred millions of Shia Arab to Iran, murdered his own family, took revenge on is son's in law for admitting he had violated the 1st Gulf War and accumulated WMD, lied to his own general about these same WMD, did not take the opportunity for one year to be open and honest with the UN, sent hundres of Scud Missiles into neighboring countries, attacked Iran killing 1m of his fellow Muslims, invaded Kuwait under the lie that it belonged to greater Iraq, and forced the coalition of forces to act, resulting in over 4,200 casualties and 30,000 wounded to date? Pacifists in essence put the rest of us in mortal danger during these times. I have no sympathy for their views and in fact loathe them.