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Even though Kosovo was the West's attempt to compensate for the failures outlined in Slaughterhouse , as recently as last September Rieff opposed military action against Serbia in an op-ed, calling such intervention unwarranted because the sufferings of the Kosovars "pale in comparison" with the starvation of refugees in southern Sudan and Sierra Leone.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, condemning the United States and saying he was "astonished" that nobody considered the sufferings of the Iraqi people--"[a]nd the UN, remember, was an institution created to protect the people."
Thereafter, the couple set up housekeeping together in an apartment 20 blocks downtown from the Shawn residence on upper Fifth Avenue and stoically endured the sufferings of Shawn's wife, who did not want a divorce.
But the American land of opportunity that goes reeling by in the background turns out to be a nightmare of free-floating violence and organized fascism (brilliantly imagined, by the way), until the America of A Cool Million has outdone in scariness even the America of Kafka's Amerika . West's hero loses his thumb, his teeth, his leg, his scalp, and his nose; and the creepier his sufferings become, the funnier is the book, sad to say.
I suppose that Miss Lonelyhearts should count as West's masterpiece, due to the fantastic procession of importuning advice-hounds that traipses across its pages--a procession of battered wives, crippled cuckolded husbands, syphilitic children, rape victims, and deformed teen-agers whose sufferings could break your heart--except that West's demeanor makes the whole thing slightly funny, as in a sick joke.
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