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Shut the F--k up with the War, Already

By AAN Staff
february 21, 2003  09:54 am
Shut the F--k up with the War, Already
"Nobody gives a shit what anti-war or pro-war writers think. Really. So shut up. That goes double for poets. Shut the hell up, poets. Everybody just shut up." First Rall, then Hitchens, now Neal Pollack lets loose on pre-war hand-wringing in The Stranger. "Do you really want to hear what any writer thinks about our upcoming war with Iraq? I don't," Pollack says toward the beginning of his 2,500-word piece. Of all the writing spewed forth after Sept. 11, Pollack finds only two pieces that will stand the test of time: the Onion's first issue after the attack and William Langewiesche's book on unbuilding the World Trade Center.
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