Up and down the road to a big anti-war movement

[Max Sawicky]

. . . 
> The anti-globalization movement should steer well clear of the antiwar
> organizers who have proven their ability to alienate the public and fail
> miserably.  Why should the global justice movement be talking 
> about anything
> other than the poverty and injustice they were already talking about,
> especially since the deaths in Afghanistan are a blip on the radar of the
> millions who die each year from the poverty and disease driven by 
> neoliberal
> economic polices?  Fighting the latter can command popular support-- it
> would be idiotic politically to link it to a movement fighting a 
> much lower
> level of harm that is incredibly unpopular.

Positions on the war aside, the current economic circumstances
in Afghanistan ought to be a boost to the anti-glob movement.
The U.S. has a special obligation to clean up the mess it has
made (not just this fall, but since 1980).  I think this case can be
made without becoming ensnared in the right or wrong of
the U.S. military intervention.

mbs