John F. Masare
wachinghare@hotmail.com
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The Reply (Reasons why we won't ...)
("... and I really wish (sniff) we could have
done more in Sarajevo, Mogadishu, (sniff) Belfast,
Kigali, Kabul, Darfur and all (sniff) those other
places but -
It was a severely intractable problem. You
understand that. Don't you? A severe - we
would have been bogged down there. Anyway,
some of those (sniff) nations weren't REALLY
nations. Just ... sort of nations. There wasn't
ACTUALLY a genocide, you know, it was in the
nature of an ethnic, ehm, interaction .."
Anonymous ...?
With more than merely morbid fascination,
we observe the persistent perspiring practice
of patented political procrastination. Oh - yes.
Excuses and explanations are exponential,
national, special, commercial interests and,
our very favourite, quagmire potential.
The blood and bones of the cast off, though
innocent, are simmering in a bottomless bureaucratic
brew with the tortured tears of the utterly forsaken.
And still, the rationales and researches are not spent,
even though we groan under the wise men's burden ... |
