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Titolo: Kurt Vonnegut sugli attentati suicidi

US author lauds suicide bombers
David Nason, New York correspondent
November 19, 2005
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17293730
^601,00.html
ONE of the greatest living US writers has praised terrorists as "very
brave
people" and used drug culture slang to describe the "amazing high"
suicide
bombers must feel before blowing themselves up.
Kurt Vonnegut, author of the 1969 anti-war classic Slaughterhouse Five,
made
the provocative remarks during an interview in New York for his new
book,
Man Without a Country, a collection of writings critical of US
President
George W. Bush.
Vonnegut, 83, has been a strong opponent of Mr Bush and the US-led war
in
Iraq, but until now has stopped short of defending terrorism.
But in discussing his views with The Weekend Australian, Vonnegut said
it
was "sweet and honourable" to die for what you believe in, and rejected
the
idea that terrorists were motivated by twisted religious beliefs.
"They are dying for their own self-respect," he said. "It's a terrible
thing
to deprive someone of their self-respect. It's like your culture is
nothing,
your race is nothing, you're nothing."
Asked if he thought of terrorists as soldiers, Vonnegut, a decorated
World
War II veteran, said: "I regard them as very brave people, yes."
He equated the actions of suicide bombers with US president Harry
Truman's
1945 decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
On the Iraq war, he said: "What George Bush and his gang did not
realise was
that people fight back."
Vonnegut suggested suicide bombers must feel an "amazing high". He
said:
"You would know death is going to be painless, so the anticipation - it
must
be an amazing high."
Vonnegut's comments are sharply at odds with his reputation as a peace
activist and his distinguished war service. He served in the US 106th
Division and was captured by German forces at the Battle of the Bulge.
Taken to Dresden and held with other POWs in a disused abattoir,
Vonnegut
witnessed the appalling events of February 13-14, 1945, when 800 RAF
Lancaster bombers firebombed the city, killing an estimated 100,000
civilians.
The experience inspired his book Slaughterhouse Five - the title of the
novel coming from the barracks he was assigned in the POW camp. The
book
became an international bestseller and made Vonnegut a luminary of the
US
literary left.
But since Mr Bush was elected, Vonnegut's criticisms of US policy have
become more and more impassioned.
In 2002, he was widely criticised for saying there was too much talk
about
the 9/11 attacks and not enough about "the crooks on Wall Street and in
big
corporations", whose conduct had been more destructive.
The following year he wrote that the US was hated around the world
"because
our corporations have been the principal deliverers and imposers of new
technologies and economic schemes that have wrecked the self-respect,
the
cultures of men, women and children in so many other societies".
But Vonnegut's latest comments are likely to make many people wonder if
old
age has finally caught up with a grand old man of American letters.

 cultures of men, women and children in so many other societies".
Be', se uno pensa che la Coca Cola sta abbassando le falde freatiche 
indiane e rovinando l'agricoltura in India, come gia' scritto qui da 
Vandana Shiva, mica ha tutti i torti... Poi ci sarebbe pure la Monsanto 
e il Bhopal...
Am.

Si ma Kurt Vonnegut (che tra laltro e' di origine tedesca, vero nome:
Kurt von Negut) no0n fa altro che mostrare l'ipocrisia della sinistra
"pacifistiode" americana.