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...simple message to you is LIGHTEN UP--we are students who are more interested in providing simple services to our classmates than creating a covert oligarchy set out on exchanging arms for hostages or taking over the world...
...Matthews not explain that his "informant," former HSA President Robert D. Frost '92, spoke on condition of anonymity "simply because [his] term as President has ended and [he is] no longer affiliated with HSA"? Frost was not trying to imply, as Matthews did, that HSA was undertaking a covert operation...
...most extreme version, the operation would begin with covert CIA stimulation of a new revolt by Saddam's Kurdish and Shi'ite opponents and proceed to very overt bombing of the forces the Iraqi dictator sent to smash the rebellion. That, goes the plan, would so weaken the regime that either the rebels or Saddam's military commanders, or both, would get rid of him. In another version, the U.S. would covertly incite a military coup by Saddam's lieutenants, in part by letting them know Washington stood ready to back them up with air power, if need...
...very term "politically correct," I would argue, works not unlike the convert rhetoric of the Holocaust advertisement or the Peninsula "special" issue. Indeed, these texts themselves were heavily invested in the "p.c." debate. This debate has opened the flood gates for a covert Right-wing hostility that pretends to operate independently from structures of social, cultural and institutional power. To term an opinion "politically correct" has come to be a power play in itself that delegitimizes the content of the opinion, placing it outside debate and outside what need be debated...
...hostile rhetoric these days tends to confine itself to (and confine others under) covert tactics, one might wonder how a "parting shot," with its aggressive invocation, should be received. With suspicion, I think. The "shot" and the author may be modified by the apparent safety of their concurrent departures, but such stable assurances come not without some reverberation or without some consequence to the violence that is done here...