[Peace-discuss] Paul Street's comments

[Morton K. Brussel]

Here's some of what he says about our Senator Obama:

…On Win Without Vision Night (last Tuesday), I caught a fleeting  
Obama sound bite on ABC. The smiling, suspiciously overnight  
superstar told the Disney-owned network that American voters were  
expressing a welcome and “pragmatic” repudiation of “ideology” and a  
desire for more “competence” and less “partisanship” and “anger” in  
government and politics.  Here’s my long translation of that comment:  
“If you support majority U.S. (and indeed world) opinion and want to  
see U.S. troops out of Iraq now... and if you advocate the  
dismantlement of Empire and the diversion of public resources from  
militarism and corporate welfare to social justice and health at home  
and abroad, then you are a silly and unrealistic ‘ideologue.’ Let’s  
drop all our nasty partisan and ideological story lines and all just  
get along, with existing social, racial, and imperial hierarchies  
intact and, perhaps, with me in ostensible charge in about 26 months.  
Bush’s murderous oil invasion of Iraq (which has butchered 700,000  
Iraqi civilians) and his related successful efforts to further the  
upward concentration of wealth (in what was already the  
industrialized world’s most unequal nation) aren’t criminal (only  
deranged and extremist “ideologues” say that). They’re just  
incompetent and show what happens when people act in accord with  
“ideology.”

Remember that the next time you see somebody robbing, murdering, and/ 
or raping in your neighborhood: the perpetrators are being  
"incompetent" and are probably driven by “ideology.”     …

Read the rest of what he has to say at:

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=11386

in an article entitled Victory without Vision.

--mkb

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