> get over it. get over your implicit assumption that destruction
> requires destruction as you know it. get over your assumption
> that people are only radicalized by destruction. a man i seriously
> respect once told me to stop campaigning for jackson. we deserved
> Raygun again, he said. It would be the only way we would learn.
> Flush the country down the toilet with Raygun's policies and out of
> the ashes would arise something better. Having lived through an
> economic crisis in the rustbelt where there were literally no
> jobs, having lived out of the back of a ford pinto wagon for three
> months, homeless, having stood in snaking long line of people
> looking for an unemployment check, i couldn't understand why he
> wanted suffering. a political sociology course with this man a couple
> of years later revealed the answer: he schumpterian leftist, with a
> leftist notion of creative destruction.
> we are vicious pigs b/c we attacked a country because, we claimed,
> they had WOMDs and were definitely chewing at the bit to attack us.
> if not now, then later. remember, the Shrubya, wearing his heaven's
> gate stare, speaking to his koolaid slurpin' followers, stood there and
> told us that we are fighting the war now, so our first responders
didn't
> have to fight it later.
> additionally, there are many forces that want us there or, rather,
> want Saddam ousted. The fact of the matter is, they are thinking no
> differently than those here who say that it's better to be the target
of
> terrist (tm) attacks on the part of ultra-reactionary alQ/Obl Llc
> because at least that will ignite the series of wars that will
eventually
> undo capitalism and make a wedge for the emergence of socialism. so
> too, forces in Iraq would rather be subject to US "liberation" than
> Hussein's thumb. Who knows what the future will bring, but maybe, at
> least, a fighting chance.
>
> Collectively, these people who have waged this war are syphilis
> infested dripping donkey dicks out to infest the world with their
> disease. and yet, no matter how it turns out, they will manage to
> convince enough people that they are harmless, out for mutually
> assured pleasure for all: just do it my way, baby. Whether they kill a
> lot of people in the process or not, the end result will be that they
will
> tell everyone over and over and over that the one-eyed pony is clean
> and disease-free, ribbed for your pleasure, too.
> the nature of capitalism is to shape shift and adapt, to protect
> itself so it's difficult to find its heart and thrust a deadly stake
through
> it. To recoil and to despair that it is difficult is not an option, not
> here in the belly of the beast. It never feels like we are winning when
> we're in the midst of it. It never _will_ feel like we're winning when
> we're in the midst of it. But, if you stake your sense of the worth of
the
> struggle on feeling like we're winning, on needing to feel like we're
> vindicated==what, so we can tell some slobbering neo-con tool for the
> admin that they're wrong--we will sure never manage to keep up a
> struggle that will take years and years.
Wow. Ditto.
-- Shane
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