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On 08/12/13 0:07, David Green wrote:
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cite="mid:1376237235.38427.YahooMailNeo@web142406.mail.bf1.yahoo.com"
type="cite"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">As long as American
workers continue to fight wars for global corporate capitalists, </font></font></blockquote>
<font size="3"><font face="Calibri">they will continue to lose in their
own struggle for freedom and prosperity.</font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
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One of my father's cousins, Pete Hand, who played together with him as
a little boy was killed<br>
somewhere in Korea. My grandmother had kept one of Pete's toys that he
used to play<br>
with when he visited them as a little tyke. As I recall, it was some
sort of a clown puppet made<br>
of round and tubular and conical wooden blocks painted red and yellow
maybe some other colors<br>
strung on a rope of some sort. It's the faded red colour of wooden toys
from the 30's that I recall.<br>
<br>
As a young man in high school Pete Hand wrote something about the
patriotic duty to go<br>
and fight. It displays a very radical sort of Rah-Rah-Rah! zeal for <br>
involvement. This sort of thinking can be used to get young men<br>
wound up for war. But this was a war of conscription not voluntarism<br>
and my father was not drafted because of a knee injury he got on the
farm,<br>
and stayed behind, while Pete went on to Korea to accept his<br>
rendezvous with death.<br>
<br>
The Chinese did not perceive the American army as patriots but rather<br>
as running dogs sent by the American Pharoah to fight against China.<br>
The Chinese perceived that the US was seeking to use the Korean
peninsula<br>
as a base from which to unleash an imperialistic attack that would eat
China.<br>
The US government had supported Jiang Jieshi's Guomindang that later
fled<br>
to Taiwan, and it seemed reasonable to all that the US would try to
intervene<br>
against the PRC and undo the result of the Chinese Civil War.<br>
<br>
It would be cruel but accurate to say to cousin Pete, and to Mr.
Nasser---<br>
You were duped. You fought and sacrificed for nothing. You were clown<br>
puppets for an oligarchy that cares nothing about you. You were only a
number,<br>
a statistic, a pawn in a game that has nothing to do with you other
than that<br>
you had some utility because you were at that time a able-bodied pawn.<br>
<br>
They made merchandise of you and they called it your patriotic duty.<br>
<br>
They suckered you, and they will do it to you over and over again <br>
if you give them an inch of a chance.<br>
<br>
<i>vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia
vanitas...<br>
<br>
verti me ad alia et vidi calumnias quae sub sole geruntur et lacrimas
innocentum <br>
et consolatorem neminem nec posse resistere eorum violentiae cunctorum
auxilio destitutos</i><br>
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