Felicia, Thank you for the link. The essay was thoughtful and thought-provoking. Elizabeth Elizabeth Moore VMNH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Felicia Pickering" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: Re: "What if someone stole ...red flag" > Gene Dillenburg said (in part): > > I guess I was merely trying to point out, in my own, clumsy way, that > there > are many things to be outraged about in Iraq: the civiliam deaths, the > children's prisons, the torture chambers, the lies and propaganda, the > looting of hospitals, the fact that it ever even came to this... and what > are we expending our moral capital on? Broken pots. Gloriously beautiful > and irreplacably valuable pots, but pots all the same. Not human beings. > Not miserable, shattered lives. But pots. > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > And Felicia Pickering says as a partial reply: I like what Phillip > Kennicott has to say in the link below, which partially touches on the > subject of pots and human lives, or pots vs. human lives: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26194-2003Apr14.html > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).