Pinter Goes Mental
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 13, 2002 at 7:03 pm PST • Views: 365
The United States frightens Harold Pinter, author of countless unwatchable plays: The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal.
America believes that the 3,000 deaths in New York are the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no consequence.
The 3,000 deaths in Afghanistan are never referred to. The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dead through American and British sanctions which have deprived them of essential medicines are never referred to.
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf war, is never referred to. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.
My goodness. Public unhingement is so unattractive, Harold. You seem to have forgotten your own advice:
“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”
UPDATE: LGF fact-checkers and ob/gyn specialists thoroughly debunked Pinter’s “depleted uranium causes birth defects” myth last October.
Frank says: