Allen Ginsberg, "America" (was Re: Patriotism)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
>>One time when I was speaking against the coming Gulf War at OSU
>>in the fall of 90 to a pretty decent sized audience, I had a young ROTC type
>>attack my patriotism. I said, if I didn't care about my country, why would I
>>be doing this?
>
>Why your country? Why not solidarity with the people your country was
>attacking? Why do some geographical borders and a nation-state define
>a special kind of feeling for you?
>Doug

It appears that, in the case of Yugoslavia, a large number of American
leftists were incapable of solidarity with the people their country was
attacking.  Lots of people sat on their asses, afraid of being seen among
the Serbian-Americans.

Yoshie