Tag Archive 'War'

Out of the mouths of babes

Bookworm on Mar 03 2008 | Filed under: Children

Last night, my husband had the kids join him while he watched the last 45 minutes of Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe. I blogged about it here.  If you haven’t watched it — and I don’t recommend it — I would summarize it briefly as an incredibly stupid anti-War, anti-American movie that cannot be salvaged [...]

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An enemy or not an enemy *UPDATED*

Bookworm on Mar 03 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians

My father, who was a veteran of World War II and the Israeli War of Independence, was still alive during the first Gulf War. I vividly remember his comment that it was idiotic how much the press made of how nice Americans were and how our troops were so good that they didn’t want [...]

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