was meant to kill Hitler? Better than the bombs dropped on Dresden and Cologne which so helped to destroy the blind German faith in their vile war machine and their democratically elected Führer? Really?
Oooh! She throws in these comments deliberately designed to sniff out and enrage lefty liberal types. Celebrating Dresden?? That’s, um, going a bit far, isn’t it? I’m a bit of a liberal lefty type myself at times, but she carries the whole thing of with such energy that I don’t mind. Especially as she’s talking about Iraq and is making some solid points:
When the war started, I could comprehend why some of those who were against it felt as they did. I could understand that certain racists and xenophobes and grumpy old men believed that the life of one British soldier was worth more than the lives of a thousand Iraqis. I could understand why the Catholic Church was against the war; after all, they above all have shown such great empathy and support for fascist tyrants down the ages. These people were merely being consistent; they didn’t approve of personal freedom in their own countries/congregations, so why should the Iraqis have it either?
But what I couldn’t understand were the huge numbers of what I thought were People Like Me who were willing to march against the right of Iraqis to have a chance at freedom, an escape from tyranny. Women, gays, trade unionists; all of them, their snuggly self-righteousness coming off them in radiant waves, like in the old Ready Brek adverts, marching for the right of Saddam and his psychotic gang to continue torturing and murdering the people of Iraq — and Iran, and Kuwait — as he pleased.
And in conclusion:
He who is interested, then, in making love when, how and to whom he or she wants, without getting stoned to death for it, must be willing to support his system against other systems that would happily take away most of our rights to enjoy sex, love, music, art and pleasure itself, all in the name of some unproven fairytale.
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