Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 2 13:36:09 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>That millions of Afghans were already on the verge of starvation and
>bombings and border closures would make mass deaths a certainty was
>said numerous times, even before the bombings began, but that in
>itself didn't faze too many Americans & probably won't in the near
>future either, just as Iraqi deaths by economic sanctions have yet
>to touch a sufficient number of Americans to change US policy. It
>will move the masses in the Arab and/or Muslim worlds, I believe,
>but probably not in the direction Doug may hope for (= "stop the
>Anglo-American bombings, let aid workers & UN peace-keepers go in").

So what should we do? Say nothing? Make no demands at all? Just say "No war!" and nothing more? Await the legitimation crisis when the war goes badly? I'm confused.

Doug



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