I love Adonis...

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Posted by Ashtarblelya from free-ppp022.MODEMS.CWRU.Edu (129.22.7.22) on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 2:38PM :

The famous Syrian poet Adonis, writing this week in the London-based Al-Hayat, has taken up that challenge. The lesson of Iraq, Adonis writes, is that it is a mistake to connect a people and a regime, "even if it is a real democratic one, much less an autocracy." One's patriotic duty, writes the poet, is thinking and criticizing. One "must criticize the government constantly to progress forward and to deepen the democratic institutions, and to stabilize freedoms and human rights. In this way, intellectuals can keep progress alive."

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