Hey Yoshie

[Diane Monaco]

At 07:12 PM 3/4/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Did you make the Chomsky gig today in Toledo? Nice crowd. Noam brought
>everybody down, as he tends to do. Also liked his subtle critique of the
>audience, i.e., the responsibility to stop the bloodshed in the Middle East
>is on *us* and what are we doing? Nothing. No mass movement to arrest
>US/Israeli aggression, even though poll after poll shows that the American
>public is generally sympathetic to a Palestinian state (whatever that would
>be). Can we look ourselves in the mirror?
>
>DP

I was there and I think Chomsky's words were most distressing for those in 
the room.  No, I don't think we can look ourselves in the mirror.  Our 
economic sanctions against Iraq ravaged the Iraqi children, but we and the 
media were all silent.  Even when media coverage of Middle East devastation 
did become major news items, such as Saddam's annihilation of the Kurds 
which was 7 times Kosovo, as Chomsky frequently said this evening, three 
words were always missing from these reports -- the tragedies occurred 
"with our support."  Shame on us!

Diane
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