[lbo-talk] When is violence not violence?

Jon Johanning zenner41 at mac.com
Sun Dec 5 16:17:05 PST 2004


Been noticing a curious thing in discussions about Iraq lately.

When anyone -- both in the mainstream media and on the left -- talks about "violence in Iraq," they are never referring to what the U.S., British, and other (are the Poles still there?) militaries do; it's always the resistance that commits violence. (And they aren't "resistance," they're "insurgents," whatever that means).

Apparently the U.S. military and its allies are a bunch of pacifist flower-power hippies. Who knew?

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams")



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