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Military Occupation Quotes

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Christopher Hitchens
“You can't have occupation and human rights.”
Christopher Hitchens

“In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the odor of wounded men, a sickly odor of blood and antiseptics which marked the zone of every military hospital. All Athens quickly took on that odor, as the wounded Greek soldiers were moved out of hospitals and piled into empty warehouses to make way for German wounded. Now every church, every empty lot, every school building in Athens is full of wounded, and on the pathways of Zappion, the park in the heart of Athens, bandaged men in makeshift wheel chairs are to be seen wherever one walks. Zappion is a profusion of flowers, heavy-scented luxurious flowers; but even the flower fragrance is not as strong as that of blood.”
Betty Wason, Miracles in Hellas: The Greeks Fight On

“The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia). ... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti.”
Stan Goff, Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century

Dionne Brand
“un soir de guerre et ceux qui regardent parmi nous bouche bée
voient la beauté devenir effroyable

coucher de soleil, souffle de nuages gris aux stries rouges
nous observons une maison qui brûle
tout l'après-midi, toute la nuit
toutes les nuits nous regardons un autre feu qui brûle

Mardi Butler house
Mercredi radio grenade libre
Jeudi poste de police [...]
à chaque bruit nouveau de la guerre
dans la froide lumière de cinq heures du matin
il manque quelque chose
quelques parties du corps
quelques lieux de ce monde
une île, un endroit auquel penser

Je marche sur un rocher d'un rivage de la Barbade
cherchant où était grenade
à présent le vol d un bombardier américain
laisse une trace de viol dans la chambre
de chaque réveil que devons nous faire aujourd'hui
prêt à combattre couchés dans le couloir à les attendre
la peur nous tient éveillés
et nous fait rêver de sommeil”
Dionne Brand