[lbo-talk] 12-Step Program for America (was "Save Darfur". . . .)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 4/29/06, Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Iraq occupied by a "multinational force" of troops contributed by "its
> > neighbors" -- i.e., Iran, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Kuwait, and Saudi
> > Arabia!  That's almost enough to sign me up for a war on the drug that
> > causes such an outlandish hallucination!  Americans are in DIRE NEED
> > of a twelve-step program:
> >
> > 1.  We admitted we were powerless over our addiction to wars and
> > sanctions and interventions, real or imagined, US or multinational,
> > with or without US troops, with our money or other people's money --
> > that our lives had become unmanageable.
>
> Which is a good chunk of my point: For well established emprical
> reasons the US (be it govt or people) should have little or no say in
> such a force in Iraq or practically anywhere.

That is not true, but let's set that aside.  You ever hear of anyone
in a 12-Step Program beseech others to take up, in his stead, the
habit he just kicked?

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Yoshie
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