[lbo-talk] Medea Benjamin learns to love Obama's war

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Let's see how this is officially articulated by them and what exact stance
the organization takes.  Reminds me of this
http://www.iraqcp.org/members3/0060125icpr.htm

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> <http://original.antiwar.com/scott/2009/10/07/is-medea-benjamin-confused/>
>
> "’We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might
> perhaps be more flexible about a timeline,’ says [Code Pink's Medea]
> Benjamin. ‘That’s where we have opened ourselves, being here, to some other
> possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the
> return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, ‘If the U.S. troops
> left the country, would collapse. We’d go into civil war.’ A palpable sense
> of fear that is making us start to reconsider that.’"
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