[lbo-talk] Re: How to end the war

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 31 07:31:30 PDT 2005


John Bizwas wrote:


>If the actual facts of the story are real and not simply another
>'why we fight (in order to rule like gods over the rubble we made)'
>anti-insurgency propaganda piece (the stuff is churned out by all
>the major news peddlers, much of it written or approved at CentCom
>or at Occupation HQ), the attack seems well-targetted: a restaurant
>packed with quislings. It's funny how most of these are suicide
>bombers but they can conveniently drag out guys who survive the
>worst attacks and who actually turn out to be perpetrators (but then
>no one really asks for consistency of propaganda other than that it
>serve the cause for which it is written, which is to discredit
>resistance and add credibility to an abomination--which is the
>normal state of Redmond's joystick 'world system' apparently).

Can you, just once, omit the bilious tone? Or are you so righteous, and the rest of us so benighted, that you just can't help it?

Doug



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