I just hope Al Gore doesn't flip out with his Nobel Prize and start spewing this kind of nonsense: Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were "not that terrible" when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain.
"September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible," the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the leading Spanish daily El Pais.
"Some Americans will think I'm crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she said in an interview published Sunday.
GCL says:
You know what, bitch? It's like, you're on your deathbed and life threw you a bone. Suck it and shut up. No one cares about your thoughts on the IRA, 9-11 or pubic hair.
Would love to hear what Doris has to say about the slave trade versus the holocaust, or the Khmer Rouge versus the current situation in Myanmar. Are the Turks guilty of genocide or not?
This is why you can't be nice to old people.
Old people need love, too.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't read her comments, but perhaps the drip, drip, drip of the death and destruction of "the troubles" had an effect on her perception of the two events which I cannot see. 30 minutes--20 plus years...concentrated horror; extended horror. It's a tough call.
Interesting topics lately. Thank you.
She is fairly batty, but I agree with her. Dead right about Bush and Blair too.
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