A BULLY CAN DO ANYTHING - EVEN WHEN IT IS WRONG AND IMMORAL
Being a bully has an advantage. A bully can say: "There will be no peaceful coexistence, no negotiations, no summit, no joint communique with the terrorists...The struggle can end only with their complete and permanent destruction." [Chaney]
A BULLY does not have to be right (MIGHT MAKES RIGHT) or moral (MIGHT MAKES MORAL) - But cheerleaders for bullies are almost as bad as the bullies and they can never be considered innocent -[This is not just a family argument]. Those who wrap themselves in this flag mania and cheer on the very unbalanced prosecution of a war which kills thousands of innocent civilians are as complicit as the war machine they support.
"It is a matter of congratulation that you seem to have about finished
your work of civilizing the Filipinos. It is thought that about 8,000
of them have been completely civilized and sent to heaven."
[Andrew Canegie]
This is not a friendly family disagreement. Those who line up with the oppressor are just as much at fault as the oppressors. It means taking sides. It was the anti-war movement which brought another war, that war in Vietnam, to an end and it was the cheerleaders for the bullies which caused that war to last entirely entirely too long. When Germans did not say no to Hitler, it was the Nazis who were emboldened to commit acts of genocide. It takes guts to say "NO". Start saying, "NO".. NOT in OUR NAME!
Many in the United States applaud the same ideals that are of supreme value in totalitarian regimes, i.e. supressing dissent and `Law and Order.'
"There was Haiti in 1915, where United States Marines brought `order' by
shooting 2,000 Haitians..." [Zinn - On War]
KILLING TO STOP THE KILLING?
Bullies claim they're killing to stop the killings. When we were in Vietnam the capitalist U.S. bully said it was to stop Chinese expansion. However, now we know that there were no Chinese troops in Vietnam. Quite the contrary, it is the U.S. imperialist who has thousands of military bases all over the globe.
"China is ... half encircled by American military bases in Korea,
Japan, the Philippine, Formosa, Okinawa, and Thailand -- with about
250,000 United States soldiers, sailors, and airmen at those bases."
[Zinn - On War]
Never before has so much been spent to insure the U.S. stays the indisputable BULLY. Who would dare go up against the U.S. military machine? Airforce "heros" fly their missions over Afghanistan and drop their bombs with impunity and they're called "heros". BUT, oppose their war and the death and destruction you are called a "traitor."
The U.S. always needs it's bogey. If it isn't Nazism, it must be Communism and since the capitalist counter-revolutionary assault destroyed the deformed worker's state in the Soviet Union, it is now Terrorism who is the bogey. And, some are saying "but how can you compare OUR war with THEIR terrorism?" What is the difference between flying a plane at 20-30,000 feet and dumping cluster bomblets where they will go on killing civilians for days, weeks, months after they've been dropped or flying planes into buildings and killing all at once including zealots who are willing to die for their cause? Bombing civilians and revenge killing is an immoral use of power or in the case of hijacking and flying planes into buildings, it is a form of warfare by the powerless. AND, it is all terrorism and war. War is synonymous with Terrorism. It is simply a method for achieving a goal unobtainable by political means - or obtaining revenge.
"...one of the guiding rules for an Air Force in possession of large
quanitities of bombs is: `Get rid of them -- anywhere'" [Zinn, veteran
of the Air Force - On War]
And war is justification for a suspension of civil rights and a build up of the inflated military machine. It may even stimulate the economy. It is an alibi to disguise U.S. foreign policy which has always been about bullying others for capitalist gain. Whatever noble sounding name given to our foreign policy by the U.S. warlords it is nevertheless false and a justification for the New World Odor.
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".....a country's foreign policy reflects the interests of those who
control the country's political system. In a country where wealth is
distributed in a highly inequitable manner, where it takes enormous
amounts of money to wage a political comapaign, where the mass media are
owned and controlled by the well-to-do, and where crucial investment
decisions are in the hands of the rich, the political system will be
controlled by either those who own great wealth or those who serve their
interests." [Steven Rosskamm Shalom - IMPERIAL ALIBIS]
"Most men everywhere agree they want to end war, imperialism, racism,
poverty, disease and tyranny. What they disagree about is whether these
expectations can be fulfilled within the old frameworks of nationalism,
representative government and the profit system." [Zinn - On History]
50,000 imperialist troops and about 400 bombers and fighter jets and dozens of warships are surrounding Afghanistan and mounting a relentless miliary assault. The country is already in rubble. Everytime the U.S. drops a cruise missle, it cost $1.3 million and everytime a Tomahawk missile is used, it cost over $3. million. Meanwhile at home the American imperialist bourgeoisie capitalist rulers are mounting another assault on working people and minorities who are being made to pay for the cost of recession and this military buildup with their jobs.
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