The American Spectator

Another Perspective

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like me , are supposed to be unnerved to learn this. He is, I'm br> Sure, one of the best minds of his generation, starving hysterical br> Naked, the Negro streets, et cetera . Actually, br> I met Ginsberg once, back when I was in graduate school. He br> Taught a course in, well, himself. He was peeing at the next urinal. br> He kept his eyes forward. And I mine. br> The world was pretty quiet at that moment. There was the fatwah br> On Rushdie. Not much to rage against. Still, Ginsberg had signed br> A petition; he had scolded a cabbie who defended the Ayatollah: /p> p>"Well, then," Ginsberg cried from the back seat, "I spit on Allah." br> His boy friday recounted that story, years later, at his memorial. br> But Ferlinghetti says America is "beginning the third World War, br> The war with the Third World." (Cut to the scene of Iraqi women br> Dancing in the streets of Basra with coalition troops.) And then br> Ferlinghetti says, "the terrorists in Washington are shipping out br> The young men to the killing fields again." (Cut to Iraqi children br> Chasing after the decapitated head of Saddam's fallen statue br> And slapping it with a dusty shoe.) Ferlinghetti ends, "Now is br> The time to speak, O silent majority, before they come for you." /p> p>Ah, yes, the silent majority! What a glorious day it will be when br> Tehran and Damascus and the West Bank wake up and listen! /p>

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Law, Iraq