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April 08, 2005
Misinformation about war
The daily paper “Il Foglio” - a four-page information newspaper that politically sides with the Right and-governmental positions - dedicates the upper part of the second page to the review of the latest book by Hillman "A Terrible Love of War".
Hillman is defined a left-leaning, ‘non-organic’ intellectual, a pacifist who supported Kerry’s candidacy to presidency of the United States of America, but sensitive to the reasons of others. This is why his theory of war like man’s ancestral instinct, like drive that "belongs to our spirit as archetypal truth of the cosmos", collects the favours of the journal in a moment when the debate on Iraq’s war dominates in Italy.
In fact, political parties are split between forces that incline to the withdrawal of the Italian troops and the ones that support the reasons of participation in the war. Therefore, the book written by a pacifist who supports the inevitability of war enters the arena of political discussion, becoming the object of exploitation for the support of Iraq’s war rather than the subject of a deeper analysis. This way Hillman seems to be supporting Bush’ s policy in Iraq without hesitancy.
Posted April 8, 2005 05:12 AM
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