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Apr 5, 2007Governments Alone Make War
On the 4th April 2007, the BBC carried a story about an unusual marriage: Sebastian Socodo is an Argentine & Phoebe Reid is a Falklands Islander. They live in Port Stanley & have two children.
What is really unusual is the BBC reporter’s tone, as exemplified in the opening & closing paragraphs of the report. The War was between governments, not peoples. People can live together peacefully; their rulers can't [emphasis added]:
“The UK and Argentine governments may be further than ever from reaching a definitive solution to the Falkland Islands/Malvinas dispute, but one couple living on the islands is giving them a lesson in peaceful co-existence. ”
[....]
“Twenty-five years after the Falklands War, marriages like this one show an alternative solution to a problem which most feel detached from and which seems to be more of a tug of war between governments. ”
If even the BBC can begin to see that peoples don’t go to war, only governments can & do, there’s hope yet.
What is really unusual is the BBC reporter’s tone, as exemplified in the opening & closing paragraphs of the report. The War was between governments, not peoples. People can live together peacefully; their rulers can't [emphasis added]:
“The UK and Argentine governments may be further than ever from reaching a definitive solution to the Falkland Islands/Malvinas dispute, but one couple living on the islands is giving them a lesson in peaceful co-existence. ”
[....]
“Twenty-five years after the Falklands War, marriages like this one show an alternative solution to a problem which most feel detached from and which seems to be more of a tug of war between governments. ”
If even the BBC can begin to see that peoples don’t go to war, only governments can & do, there’s hope yet.
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Lester Hunt - 4/5/2007
Good point! This is something I have never been able to understand: Why doesn't the antiwar left see this point or, having seen it, draw any conclusions from it?
I have commented on a possible, partial explanation here:
http://lesterhhunt.blogspot.com/2006/12/state-and-church.html
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