[lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work

[ravi]

At around 20/11/06 12:25 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 
>> It looks to me that it's a case of avoiding _only_ our
>> own responsibility
> 
> This is so ludicrous I have a hard time believing you're serious.
> Someone suggested to me offlist yesterday that you don't write to
> convince people anymore, just to shock. He may be right. At least Ann
> Coulter attacks her ideological enemies, though.
> 

While I have nothing to say about your (DH) internal mental states, I
think Yoshie is spot on about responsibility and the collective _us_
avoiding, ignoring, denying or downplaying it. Strangely enough, I made
the very same point to Yoshie and CB in response to Yoshie's "Bring them
home" slogan, in a thread from a while ago.

Yoshie's basic point (as I see it) is so simple that it seems to require
no convincing. We as fairly free people have a large set of options to
exercise in order to control the activities of our governments and the
people who run it. It should be needless to say that this is a general
claim which admits to outliers (there may be US liberals or non-liberals
who are incapable of acts of protest, or who may already have done all
they can, etc).

	--ravi