[Peace-discuss] Phyllis Bennis' view

[Morton K. Brussel]

…The mainstream leadership of both parties will likely move to  
consolidate a bipartisan deal that will sound like withdrawal, look  
like withdrawal, but will in fact be a recipe for continuing,  
permanent occupation. …

Therefore, …The peace movement must continue to engage those  
alternative power centers [such as local and state governments, and  
international allies], while still ratcheting up the direct pressure  
on Washington, on those politicians and power centers openly  
supporting the war, as well as those attempting to relegitimize and  
rename this war into something they can call "redeployment." U.S.  
occupation of Iraq, "sustainable" or not, must end. Until it does,  
the anti-war movement will continue its fight.



The full review, which I think most of us would agree with, is at

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=13352

--mkb
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