Ideally, we should hand over the situation in both countries to the UN, while offering no-strings payments to fix the stuff we blew up and destroyed or allowed to be destroyed. And, while we are at it, we should bring the troops home as soon as the UN can get a functioning police force up in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Unhappily, we wouldn't save much money. We'dsave the expense of occupation, byt we owe vast sums for reconstruction.
Btw, did anyone see an abominable sentence in a recent leader in The Economist (in an issue justifying its support for the war) saying that while the US was shameful in abandoning Afghanistan, Iraq is different because it really matters. (But don't worry, it's not about oil . . . )
So, let's make the antiwar movement we belong to better, shall we?
jks
--- Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:
> Bring Them Home Now! Screw the Iraqis! Leave them
> to Starve! Protect Our
> Boys!
>
> Why not, Demand UN administration! Democracy for
> Iraq! or something that is
> not so faux-populist isolationist? This is all
> the brain-dead
> sloganeering that failed in the first place.
>
> And where is all the Afghanistan agitation now that
> the US is wimping out on
> promises to provide funding for the people there?
> Did the antiwar movement
> give a damn about the people of Afghanistan, or is
> it all just agitprop,
> where the attention span of the antiwar movement is
> the same as the
> government, each moving on restlessly to the next
> battle to score political
> points, not giving a shit about those countries left
> behind?
>
> I've been against both wars but can't really think
> of myself as part of the
> antiwar movement, because it is so morally bankrupt
> in its slogans. This is
> not a peace and justice movement-- it's an America
> First isolationist
> movement.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
>
> Stan Goff & his comrades got the campaign to Bring
> Them Home Now
> website up and running:
> <http://www.bringthemhomenow.com/>. He sent
> me two temp leaflets to be used in the campaign. I
> uploaded them to
> the Student International Forum website of which I
> am the webmaster.
> You can download the leaflets at
>
<http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/PTSD.doc>
> &
>
<http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/DU.doc>.
> Stan says,
> "Let 'em rip."
>
> Stan Goff is a member of the Speakers and Organizers
> Bureau of the
> Southern Peace Research and Education Center, the
> Institute for
> Southern Studies:
> <http://www.southernstudies.org/eejp.asp>. To
> invite Stan, contact SPREC:
> rania at southernstudies.org or
> 919.419.8311x 27.
> * Stan Goff, "Bring Em On?" CounterPunch, July 3,
> 2003,
> <http://www.counterpunch.org/goff07032003.html>
> * Stan Goff (Master Sergeant, US Army, Special
> Forces [Ret.]):
> <http://www.freedomroad.org/milmatters.html> &
>
<http://www.softskull.com/store/goff/hideous_dream.html>
> --
> Yoshie
>
> * Calendars of Events in Columbus:
> <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>,
> <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, &
> <http://www.cpanews.org/>
> * Student International Forum:
> <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
> * Committee for Justice in Palestine:
> <http://www.osudivest.org/>
> * Al-Awda-Ohio:
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>
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