[Peace-discuss] Art of the possible?

[Morton K. Brussel]

A fine quote but a little brittle with respect to the statement:
> If our troops are preventing civil war, helping people, controlling  
> violence, then why withdraw at all?
The natural response, especially of the "enterprise" community, could  
be that "It's costing us too much".

Just a thought. --mkb


On Jul 23, 2007, at 5:00 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> "For antiwar activists to support timetables for the eventual  
> scaling down of the invasion of Iraq is as if, before the Civil  
> War, abolitionists agreed to postpone the emancipation of the  
> slaves for a year, or two years, or five years, and coupled this  
> with an appropriation of funds to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.   
> Timetables for withdrawal are not only morally reprehensible in the  
> case of a brutal occupation (would you give a thug who invaded your  
> house, smashed everything in sight, and terrorized your children a  
> timetable for withdrawal?) but logically nonsensical. If our troops  
> are preventing civil war, helping people, controlling violence,  
> then why withdraw at all? If they are in fact doing the opposite --  
> provoking civil war, hurting people, perpetuating violence -- they  
> should withdraw as quickly as ships and planes can carry them  
> home." --Howard Zinn, via Paul Street

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