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According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still like us.

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Serge Daney
Age: 48 †
Born: 1944
Born: June 4
Died: 1992
Died: June 12
Film Critic
Film Director
Radio Personality
Paris
France
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Still
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