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New
York Times Screws Up Again;
Uday, Qusay Deaths are Bad for Bush and Blair;
Kroeber and the Indians:
General Hitchens Visits the Front
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Reeling from one blunder to the next, the New
York Times plummeted to new depths on July 25, combining a serious
falsehood with possible misrepresentation of authorship.
On the op page for 7/25 appeared a column,
datelined Havana, under the name Gustavo Arcos Bergnes, identified
as Secretary General of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights,
and titled "A Prisoner Becomes A Warden". The column
narrated how its author had been with Castro in the original
attack on the Moncada in 1953, had been imprisoned by Batista
along with Castro and other comrades, had eventually turned against
Castro. The thrust of the column was to compare the relatively
decent prison and trial conditions (and eventual amnesty) enjoyed
by Castro and the others in l953, with the grim sufferings and
stinted rights of political prisoners in Cuba today.
Towards the end of the piece came the
following sentence: "(Although there is no doubt in my mind
that my younger brother, Sebastián, died in prison in
1997 because of deliberate lack of medical attention.)"
In fact Sebastian Arcos died in Miami
of cancer, a couple of years after he was released from prison
for humanitarian
reasons. But surely, you ask, Gustavo Arcos would remember
where his brother died.
Gustavo is a brave and admirable person,
but he is also very old and frail. The odds that he wrote that
op-ed are slim indeed. For one thing, he doesn't speak English.
On the topic of the mess at the NYT,
our old friend (and CounterPuncher), former Times-man John L.
Hess had this to say on WBAI on July 15: "Bill Keller wrote
not long ago that he was amazed to find himself a hawk. That's
the mark of a true Times man. He may waver around, but he comes
out Right in the end. The staff clapped hands yesterday when
he was  named executive editor. They were
all sore at Howell Raines for saying he'd been chosen as editor
to shake them out of their sleepy ways. It's no doubt true that
his drive to make a splash encouraged some reporters to go hog
wild. Yesterday the Times ran half a page of corrections to a
single article and it was the third such public disgrace in a
few weeks.
"But there are several reasons to
doubt that Keller is the man to cure that. For one thing, he
was the editor in charge when the Times ran waged a campaign
accusing Wen Ho Lee of selling atomic secrets to China. For another,
neither Bill Keller nor Howell Raines nor their boss Arthur Sulzberger
has uttered one peep about the serial lying of Judith Miller.
For two years, she's been faking evidence about weapons of mass
destruction. Alex Cockburn has a devastating wrap-up in the print
edition of CounterPunch of Miller quotes that helped drag us
into war with Iraq. When the Times does a skin-back of that campaign
I'll believe it has truly reformed."
Bye, Bye Uday and
Qusay: Why the news is Bad For Bush and Blair
Short of good news ever since the end
of the formal war, Bush and Blair are naturally exultant that
Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay, have been satisfactorily incinerated
in Mosul, presumably victims of someone eager to collar the $30
million reward for turning them in.
But though Saddam's sons deserve everything
they got, and more, the news of their demise should not be cause
for great rejoicing in the White House and 10 Downing Street.
In the event that Saddam soon follows his sons into the Great
Hereafter, that would not, in anything other than the short term,
be great news for Bush and Blair either.
For obvious reasons, Bush and his entourage
have been eager to identify Saddam, Uday and Qusay as the instigators
of the attacks on the US and UK occupying forces, with attendant
steady, demoralizing trickle of casualties.
\To suggest otherwise would be to concede
that there might be long-term, organized opposition to the Allied
occupation which has less to do with Saddam Hussein and his clan,
and more with nationalist, or Islamic/nationalist opposition
to the invaders.
The fact that Uday and Qusay were holed
up in the house of a relative scarcely suggests that they had
elaborate flight plans, replete with secret command bunkers,
prepared in advance of the US/UK invasion. It looks as though,
like many others suddenly on the run, the only plan they could
come up with was an desperate rap on the door of a family friend.
With his epic record of blunders and
miscalculations we're probably safe in assuming Saddam wasn't
much better prepared. All those elaborate scenarios about ratlines
to Russia or even nearby Syria were so much hooey. So in the
end the huge reward for Saddam will weigh heavier than loyalty
or fear and he'll end up dead too.
With Uday and Qusay finished off, Bush
may enjoy a short-term uptick on the polls. Maybe the attacks
on US and UK troops will slow, but they certainly won't stop
and in the medium term they'll probably increase.
Remember, many Iraqis saw the only virtue
of the invasion as the end of a hated regime. If Saddam gets
nailed too, that fear will finally dissipate and then more Iraqis
will focus on the business of driving the Americans and the British
out of their country. More US and British troops will get killed,
but the rationale that this is the last ditch resistance of the
cornered Saddam clan will have disappeared.
It's a cynical proposition, but Bush
and Blair will be much better off if Saddam is not run to earth,
at least until some advanced point in next year's presidential
campaign season.
Even the killing of Uday and Qusay won't
help much in the steady erosion in both Bush and Blair's popularity,
because of the reasons for their slump. They stitched together
a handsome patchwork of lies about Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction
and that patchwork has fallen apart. No amount of grandstanding
by Blair in Congress about the absolutions of history alters
that.
Take the current uproar in the UK about
the suicide of Dr David Kelly, the biowar expert charged by Blair
and his minions with leaking disobliging information to the BBC.
The plan of Blair's spin team in 10 Downing Street, headed by
Alastair Campbell, has been to create a diversion, to occlude
the obvious: that Blair and his cohort obviously mangled the
truth about Saddam's WMDs.
This is the reason for all the howling
from Number 10 about the BBC's charges, based on interviews with
Kelly by three separate BBC reporters, that Blair's people "sexed
up" (words never used by the BBC)the original report on
WMDs prepared by Britain's intelligence services.
But the record is clear enough. First,
Britain's intelligence services rushed from one preposterous
piece of inflation to the next, accepted crude forgeries, plagiarized
a student's essay off the internet, and so forth. Kelly himself
was an assiduous threat inflator till near the end, and maybe
guilt over his own role, contributed to his very strange decision
to kill himself. (Or maybe the security services were threatening
him with some damaging personal revelation unless he denounced
the BBC for misrepresenting his remarks to their reporters.)
Then Blair and his team took these threat
inflations and inflated them even further. Whether it was some
intelligence officer in MI6 or one of Blair's flacks who came
up with the notorious 45-minute launch time for one of Saddam's
bioweapons is a legitimate but not very important question. They
were all in the business of exaggeration, as was UNSCOM, which
has thus far escaped well-deserved rebuke. The same is true this
side of the Atlantic. The press has finally caught up with the
matter and won't let it drop. Neither will the Democrats.
It will take a lot more than the killing
of Uday or Qusay to turn this tide.
Kroeber and the California
Indians
Driving up highway 101 from Eureka to
Crescent City, just south of Orick I kept an eye out for a scenic
rest area which, according to a memoir by his wife, Theodora,
had once been the site of a cabin owned by Alfred Kroeber.
It's through Kroeber that the Yurok made
their way in the world of learning, their lives distilled into
a monograph and footnote. In 1900, Kroeber, the father of academic
anthropology in California, began a series of encounters with
the Yurok that lasted many years. Many of these Q & A sessions
were at this cabin formerly located in the scenic rest area where
I was now peering under the hood of my wagon, trying to figure
out why my brakes had stopped working.
Here, at the place known as Sigornoy,
Kroeber would interrogate Indians, chiefly Robert Spott, a Yurok
theocrat. Their conversations eventually had academic consequence
in such works as Yurok Narratives and figured in Kroeber's dispassionate
reflections on the supposed 'character' of the Yurok, scattered
through various works. The Yurok were, he wrote on one occasion,
an 'inwardly fearful peoplethe men often seemed to me withdrawn.'
Kroeber mused that 'for some reason, the culture had simply gone
hypochondriac.'
Kroeber never got around to mentioning
that between 1848, the start of the gold rush, and 1910, the
Yurok population in the region was reduced from about two and
a half thousand individuals to about 610. Disease, starvation
and murder had wiped out about 75 per cent of the group. It is
as though an anthropologist studying the inward fears of Polish
Jews never mentioned Auschwitz.
In his Handbook of the Indians of California,
published by the bureau of American Ethnology in 1925, Kroeber
wrote that 'there is one Indian in California today for every
eight that lived in the same area before the white man came.'
Then he mused that 'the causes of this decline of nearly 90%are
obscure.'
Kroeber, eager to identify American anthropology
in terms of 'millennial sweeps and grand contours', had little
patience with that shorter chronological span encompassing the
extermination of most of the California tribal groups he was
presuming to study. As he put it, 'the billions of woes and gratifications
of peaceful citizens or bloody deaths' were of no concern. He
visited the desperate native Americans of California , writing
these tranquil ethnologies, sometimes, after only a couple weeks
with the group, all but ignoring the end of history elapsing
before his eyes.
This posture bothered some of Kroeber's
professional associates. The linguist Edward Sapir wrote him
in 1938, 'You find anchorage--as most people do, for that matter--in
an imaginative sundered system of cultural and social values
in the face of which the individual has almost to apologize for
presuming to exist at all. It seems to me that if people were
less amenable to cultural and social mythology, we'd have less
Hitlerism in the world.'
In the back of my station wagon I had
the special 1989 California issue of The American Indian Quarterly,
in which Thomas Buckley discussed Kroeber's attitude to the Yurok
and his relationship with the Yurok aristocrat, Spott. Buckley
described how Kroeber was once asked why he hadn't paid any attention
to recent Yurok history and acculturation. Kroeber answered that
he 'couldn't stand all the tears' that these topics elicited
from his Yurok informants.
Not that Kroeber was indifferent to pain.
He'd been through a fairly harrowing time in the century's second
decade, suffering from Meniere's disease and psychic ailments,
undergoing some lengthy sessions with a Freudian psychoanalyst.
He also corresponded with Freud himself. Kroeber's remark about
the tears reminding me of a sudden outburst from Freud once,
to one of his intimates, about the filthy and despicable lives
of people who ended up on his couch in Bergasse 19.
There may be a secret text here. A fellow
who had it from a Yurok once told me Kroeber was a closet gay
and Spott was his lover. Freud fortified Kroeber's addiction
to the sweeping cultural judgement. 'Among other things', Kroeber
wrote in his big work Anthropology, 'Freud set orderly, economical,
and tenacious; or, in its less pleasant aspects, pedantically
precise, conscientious, and persistent; miserly; and obstinate
to vindictivenessNow, just as the anal-type description fits
certain individuals quite strikingly, it seems to agree pretty
well with the average or modal personality produced under certain
cultures. This holds for instance for the Yurok of native California
and their cotribes of the same culture. It holds also for certain
Melanesians On the contrary, within Oceania, Polynesians, Indonesians,
and Australians are wholly unanal in character, the Australians
in fact standing at a sort of opposite pole of living happily
in disorder, in freedom from possessions, and in fluctuations
of the moment. And the Siamese are certainly oral if the type
has any validity at all.'
Kroeber was basing his perceptions of
the Siamese on the work of Ruth Benedict, who had never been
to Siam but was keen on majestic generalizations about native
traits, having begun her career by contrasting two American Indian
cultures, that of the Plains bison hunters and that of the Southwestern
Zuni and other Pueblo farmers, as being respectively Dionysiac
and 'Apollinian' (to use Kroeber's spelling). During the second
World War, the US government commissioned Benedict to write
a study of Siam and she responded speedily enough, stating in
her book that much in Siamese politics and society could be explained
by early child nurture, during which period infants were permitted
to manipulate their genitals freely.
Spott was once reproached by his nephew
for spending so much time with Kroeber, whose work didn't do
the Yurok much good. 'Ah, Harry,' Spott answered, 'white men
hurt so much. We have to help him.'
The Indian had a surer grip on the ethno-cultural
problems.
General Hitchens Visits
The Front
From the New York Post
July 24, 2003 -- For Christopher Hitchens, the dramatic deaths
of Saddam Hussein's evil spawn will always be the one that got
away. The Vanity Fair reporter was in Mosul, Iraq, being shown
around by the 101st Airborne the day before the crack American
unit cornered Qusay and Uday Hussein and killed them in a six-hour
firefight. "I flew back to Washington, D.C., on Monday night,"
he tells PAGE SIX. "I had just gotten in and was making
some phone calls, when my friend said, 'Turn on the TV.' "
Hitchens wasn't surprised by the lethal efficiency of the U.S.
Army, and praised its military intelligence. "They were
rolling up these networks. They were getting more tips than they
knew what to do with," he said. "They were very, very
confident."
Hitchens said media coverage, which focuses
on U.S. casualties and the complaints of soldiers who want to
go home, left him unprepared for the reality in Iraq. "Morale
is very high" among both troops and Iraqi citizens. "People
waving American flags at the troops in the street: you can't
fake that."
It doesn't seem to have occurred to Hitchens
to inquire where the Iraqis got those flags.
Alexander Cockburn is the coeditor of The
Politics of Anti-Semitism.
Weekend Edition Features for July 19 / 20, 2003
Arthur
Mitzman
Will the Pax Americana be More Sustainable
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Julian
Bond
We Shall be Heard
Cynthia
McKinney
Bush's Racial Politics at Home and Abroad
Mel
Goodman
What is to be Done with the CIA?
Jason Leopold
Tenet Blames Wolfowitz
Mickey
Z.
History Forgave Churchill
Doug Giebel
Impeachment as the Message
Jon
Brown
Whipping the Post
Mano Singham
Cheney's Oil Maps
Steven
Sherman
Nickle, Dimed and Slimed at UNC
Robin Philpot
Liberia: History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters
Khaldoun
Khelil
Capturing Friedman
Jeffrey
St. Clair
You Must Leave Home, Again: Gilad Atzmon's A Guide to the Perplexed
Lenni
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