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...attempting to defend this absurd position, Landau is forced to a series of distortions and lies. Here are just a few of them...
...better than their critics will ever willingly concede, but faked body counts and phony pacification figures are not the way to prove it. The North Vietnamese sustained three times as many casualties as the French at Dienbienphu. As a former U.S. adviser in Viet Nam notes, it is patently absurd to suppose that, "when the South Vietnamese are chasing each other aboard a helicopter to get off a hill, they are going to stop everything to say, 'And incidentally, sir, exactly 1,250 of the enemy lie dead outside these perimeters...
...racism, unemployment, or the war were eliminated tomorrow, SDS would indeed be gratified-not disturbed, as Kinsley suggests. We do not believe, however, that chronic unemployment and imperialist exploitation can be ended under the capitalist system. This is why we would continue to attack the government even if (absurd speculation!) it unilaterally ended...
...underway. Although the low-income projects are essentially good ones, it is naive to think that they will come anywhere near solving the housing crunch. Particularly foolish is the conception that more Faculty-student housing will somehow eliminate student pressure in the housing market. And it is patently absurd to use up 1.6 more acres in the Riverside area (as in the Treeland-Bindery site) for more student housing, when it will neither eliminate Harvard students living in the area nor provide more housing for area residents...
...about the Kazoo Theater are a short, academy award-winning film shown during intermission, and the strange feeling of disorientation that comes from watching such a seriously presented collection of unlikely, unfunny, unmoving "entertainment." It's a little like the disorientation that comes out of the theater of the absurd; but instead of emphasizing the absurdity of life, the "Theater Two" emphasizes only its own absurdity...