Enduring Freedom as Big Oil's Great Game is in the process of being blown wide open in the European press. The non-US West is drifting ever more rapidly away from the Dubya - Blair coalition (Blair's own constituents are against the bombing). This will not only leave the US high and dry, but will also put the US antiwar movement in an embarassing position. The vanguard of the political left bamboozled by the NSC state's propaganda? Not good, not good at all.
I agree that "bringing the perps to justice" is a politically risky demand, unless you're prepared to accept that some of those perps might be sitting at Langley or Tel Aviv. Alternatively, the left can brace for yet more pie in the face by implicitly trusting Dubya's "secret evidence" against ObL.
Hakki Alacakaptan
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi (...)
||
|| I videotaped the S29 rally & march in D.C., not in Columbus. In my
|| view, far more people who spoke at the WWP/IAC/ANSWER rally in D.C.
|| mentioned "bringing the perpetrators to justice" than here in
|| Columbus. As you know, our local coalition has only three points of
|| unity: oppose the war; fight racism; & defend civil rights &
|| liberties (basically the same as the joint statement that I drafted &
|| circulated immediately after the S11 bombings); "bringing the
|| perpetrators to justice" is not among them.
||
|| I'd rather see left-wingers spend more time & energy fighting
|| anti-terrorism measures taken by the U.S. government that violate
|| civil rights & liberties than criticizing the WWP/IAC/ANSWER.
|| Leftists calling on the U.S. government to "bring the perpetrators to
|| justice," I believe, will likely make it easier for it to destroy
|| civil rights & liberties and increase police powers.
|| --
|| Yoshie
||
|| * Calendar of Anti-War Events in Columbus:
|| <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>
|| * Anti-War Activist Resources:
|| <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html>
|| * Anti-War Organizing in Columbus Covered by the Media:
|| <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/media.html>