http://womenforpeaceiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/report-on-the-rove-event/ Men and Women in Solidarity Promoting Peaceful, Just and Compassionate Communities Sat, 23 May 2009 03:37:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://womenforpeaceiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/report-on-the-rove-event/#comment-47 paxmama Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:30:40 +0000 http://womenforpeaceiowa.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-47 (Fussel, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975) (Fussel, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975)

]]> http://womenforpeaceiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/report-on-the-rove-event/#comment-46 paxmama Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:29:39 +0000 http://womenforpeaceiowa.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-46 This reminds me of something Paul Fussel said when writing about WWI: "Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends." This whole encounter strikes me as simultaneously hilarious and horrific and illustrates the absurdity of the war (and the continual repetition of arguments we have long since challenged, debunked, and rejected). This reminds me of something Paul Fussel said when writing about WWI: “Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.” This whole encounter strikes me as simultaneously hilarious and horrific and illustrates the absurdity of the war (and the continual repetition of arguments we have long since challenged, debunked, and rejected).

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