Fallujah Article Debunked
By Callimachus | Related entries in Blogging, In The News, Military, WarMany good whacks have been taken at it, but here’s a strong one. Note the comments, too.
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November 9th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
Very interesting. This sure puts a dent in the “new napalm” theory.
But one thing we seem to know now for sure is that phosphorus burns everything it comes in contact with. So the whole “clothes not burned” thing is extremely suspect now.
November 10th, 2005 at 7:04 am
You might want to click over to Raw Story — they have a USArmy publication validating the white phosphorous claim.
November 13th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
Marina Abramovic
I’m surprised to here that reference at CT.
Abramovic with or without Ulay represnts a sort of aestheticized reactionary anti-politics. There’s a long European tradition of that of which is the most famous practicioner in the last hunded years was Duchamp (though anyone who knows anything about the art world knows that such entertainment is still our bread and butter.)
Americans, seeing Duchamp as the inventor of conceptualism, have never managed to reconcile their partial understanding with the fact the referred to himself as a monarchist. Europeans quite simply get the joke. D’s critique of modernism was as reactionary as Sade’s. Monarchists are anti-bourgeois too (and court jesters don’t have to lie.)
I have no huge problem with Abramovic, but I think to understand her work is to see it’s limits.