Wednesday, April 06, 2005
ONLY THE TIMES AND LOCATIONS CHANGE
"Reuter-world":
March 30, A.F.P.:
The Associated Press:
UPDATE: Support Lebanese independence. (Via Murdoc.) ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, April 06, 2005
"Reuter-world":
Anti-U.S. protesters tear a U.S. flag apart during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy near Beirut, April 1, 2005. Several thousand protesters marched on the U.S. Embassy chanting 'Death to America' and denouncing what they say was U.S. interference in Lebanon.Also from "Reuter-world":
Pro-Syrian supporters attend a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy, denouncing what they say was U.S. interference in Lebanon, near Beirut March 30, 2005. . .However, foreign Syria's occupation of Lebanon is presumably just swell.
March 30, A.F.P.:
A supporter of the Lebanese opposition waves her national flag near the grave of slain former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri. . .Next, the Associated Press:
A Lebanese flashes a victory sign during a pro-opposition demonstration in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday, March 28, 2005:And what the heck, also the A.P.:
Lebanese opposition protesters wave Lebanese flag as they sing during a pro-opposition demonstration in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday March 28, 2005. More than 5,000 women belonging to pro-opposition groups walked about one kilometer (0.6 mile) from the bombing site of slain former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri near the seafront Saint Georges Hotel to Martyrs' Square a few meters (yards) from Hariri's grave, shouting anti-Syrian slogans, singing patriotic songs, waving Lebanese flags and Hariri's pictures.There is a reason that "liberty" is so often symbolized by a woman.
The Associated Press:
This is one the pictures from a series of Associated Press photographs which won a Pulitzer Prize, announced Monday, April 4, 2005. U.S. Marines pray over a fallen comrade at a first aid point after he died from wounds suffered in fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday, April 8, 2004. . .Lastly, from "Life" magazine, September 20, 1943:
. . . here on this beach is America, three parts of a hundred and thirty million parts, three fragments of that life we call American life: three units of freedom.On Friday, as is buried one of the great champions of freedom, it is worth recalling that while we often wish there could be an "exit strategy", in fact the struggle against oppression never really ends. Only the times and locations change.
So that it is not just these boys who have fallen here, it is freedom that has fallen: the smell, the taste, the sound, the sight of freedom, the desire, the realization, the manifold, intoxicating experience that freedom is. All this has fallen upon the white New Guinea sand. . .
UPDATE: Support Lebanese independence. (Via Murdoc.) ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, April 06, 2005
