Opposing the Protector of Global Capitalism in Principle

[Peter K.]

>plain and simple*.  I suppose that the insistence of the media &
some
>LBO-talkers on painting *all* oppositions to the enduring war on
>freedom to be varieties of pacifism may be a way of saying that
they
>don't want to even imagine that oppositions to the war may, God
>forbid, develop into an anti-imperialist movement, not an
anti-war
>movement.
>
>against the Empire,
>--
>Yoshie

I'm all for an anti-imperialist movement, but not one that
isn't against massacring innocent civilians. In respect
to Israel, Edward Said wrote:

"Many ordinary Europeans and Americans no longer accept the
notion that Israel enjoys some special moral status, which makes
its policies of dispossession and assassination pardonable. The
occupying power still has its imperial protectors abroad. But in
the court of world opinion it has grown more isolated, and
Israelis know it.

That is what explains the desperate expedients to which its
friends in the United States have resorted, as they thrash about
in search of a way to extricate Israel from the impasse of its
attempts to suppress the new Intifida."

There was anti-imperialism brewing, even before
the current war.
Al Queda may have struck a blow against the Empire,
but it was suicidal and gave the US a nudge towards
fascism. Nor very smart anti-imperialism.

against the Empire and Al Queda, sorry you can't say the same.

Peter