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Open Rant: 1 Year On / Dubya

SweetBirdOfTruth · 2002-02-05 13:42:09

normal mailer (author, naked and the dead) piece in today's gruan. Manliness is what is missing from the current conflict, he says: America is behaving like a timorous giant. "What would we think of someone who was seven-foot tall, weighed 350 pounds, was all muscle, and had to be reassured all the time? We would say that…

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05-02-2002 2:42pm

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normal mailer (author, naked and the dead) piece in today's gruan.

Manliness is what is missing from the current conflict, he says: America is behaving like a timorous giant. "What would we think of someone who was seven-foot tall, weighed 350 pounds, was all muscle, and had to be reassured all the time? We would say that fella's a mess!" The sentimental patriotism engulfing the country appals him. "My feeling is that you're patriotic about America if you're obsessed with America because it's a democracy, and its obligation is to improve all the time, not to stop and take bows and smell its armpits and say 'Ambrosia!'"

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,645255,00.html

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