[lbo-talk] Hill refines her posish on war

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/17/07, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
> Where are the
> legislators who will stand up to the shortcuts that the executive are
> taking each day that will, if left unchecked, extract a toll far beyond
> the 'blood and treasure' we're experiencing with the adventure in Iraq?
>
> -=-
>
> It's probably not here:
>
> http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/pdf/ltr_031507_Gonzales.pdf
>
> I think it's weird that only 4 hits come from Google News on this issue.
>
> http://news.google.com/news?q=kennedy+durbin+feingold+gonzales
>
> Here's one:
>
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/democratic_sena.html
>
> Maybe, as Doug says, the war is a <<bloody, expensive "diversion.">> ...
> but what about the other war, the one being waged on US soil?  The one
> that the majority of people on this list are personally having waged
> against them?

If you are talking about the war on civil liberties in the USA (which
I gather is the case from the links), that, too, is now waged in the
name of "war on terrorism."  Most types of people who end up on
mailing lists like this are very unlikely to come under warrantless
surveillance and the like.  Today, secular leftists are not the
primary or probably even secondary or tertiary targets of such
programs -- Muslims, especially immigrant Muslims, are.  Like the Iraq
War, it is still first and foremost "other people's problem," even for
leftists, let alone most of the American public.
-- 
Yoshie