02-04-2007, 06:08 PM
This guy has seems to be having an absolutely convoluted understanding of Lord Vishnu or the Bhagavadgeeta. He has taken the Robert
Oppenheimer comment from the Gita I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy, completely out of context and making it seem seem as if Lord Vishnu encouraged the killing of innocents in Iraq, Israel as is happening now
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Conn Hallinan | February 1, 2007
Editor: John Feffer, IRC
Foreign Policy In Focus
The Supreme Lord said: I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy." According to the great Hindu text Bhagavad-Gita, Vishnu delivered that speech to Prince Arjuna before a great battle almost eight millennia ago. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer paraphrased it in 1945 to describe the explosion of the atomic bomb. The latest channeling of the Hindu god can be found in an Israeli commander's evaluation of last summer's war with Lebanon: "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs."
The commander was decrying the way Israel, the United States, and Great Britain wage war these days, which has increasingly become an exercise in mass destruction. In the last five years, Vishnu has visited Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. The result has been death and ruin on a biblicalâor more aptly, a Bhagavad-Gitaâ scale.
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Oppenheimer comment from the Gita I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy, completely out of context and making it seem seem as if Lord Vishnu encouraged the killing of innocents in Iraq, Israel as is happening now
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Conn Hallinan | February 1, 2007
Editor: John Feffer, IRC
Foreign Policy In Focus
The Supreme Lord said: I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy." According to the great Hindu text Bhagavad-Gita, Vishnu delivered that speech to Prince Arjuna before a great battle almost eight millennia ago. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer paraphrased it in 1945 to describe the explosion of the atomic bomb. The latest channeling of the Hindu god can be found in an Israeli commander's evaluation of last summer's war with Lebanon: "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs."
The commander was decrying the way Israel, the United States, and Great Britain wage war these days, which has increasingly become an exercise in mass destruction. In the last five years, Vishnu has visited Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. The result has been death and ruin on a biblicalâor more aptly, a Bhagavad-Gitaâ scale.
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<b>Conn Hallinan</b> is a Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org) columnist.
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