Politics as Usual | Los Angeles Review of Books Mary Turfah writes on Iran.

"To call for peace after an act of aggression is to endorse the aggression. It’s to say that one party gets to act, and the other has to take it. This is the basic logic of supremacy." - #MaryTurfah

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Points of Entry | Los Angeles Review of Books Mary Turfah writes on Lebanon and broken glass in an early release from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 44, “Pressure.”

"People in #Lebanon and elsewhere—people who mostly experienced the south through The New York Times, who had not been displaced, who had not lost a person—spoke of 'Pyrrhic victories,' condemning sacrifices that were not their own. Sacrifices they didn’t understand." - #MaryTurfah

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