> Seems to me there's a difference between saying that Israel cannot > be
allowed to win in Lebanon, and the U.S. in Iraq and that > Hezbollah and
the Iraqi resistance are the only available agents to > make that happen,
and writing love letters to them.
>
> Doug
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CB: In the U.S. Civil War, the Union Army was a motley crew -politically. Lots of racists, and all kinds of bourgeois, and riff-raff, murderers, terrorists, scaliwags, bandits. Sherman went on later to viciously murder Indians , etc. Lincoln wasn't all that great, as any politically correct thinking person will tell you.
Nonetheless, _we_ ("me" an ma folks) gladly sent the Union Army loveletters, partied with 'em and sang "Glory, glory hallelujeh" to them as they marched through Georgia fucking it up good.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
No Progress Without Struggle!
by Frederick Douglass
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms.
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
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