Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Sat Nov 3 02:13:05 PST 2001


In message <p0510030ab808c207b6f5@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes

citing Yoshie


>> 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.

I'm curious. What's the difference of opinion here? Is Yoshie saying that aid is imperialism (I agree with her, if she is, those aid-workers wrote the script for the invasion)? Is Doug saying that building an anti-war movement is a do-nothing policy?

-- James Heartfield



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