[Peace-discuss] War Party correction

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Afghanistan gets us back to Carter's War or Carter's Folly.

I remember clearly in the 1970's how the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan
was such a big deal of Soviet Aggression that Jimmy Carter was impelled 
to put a
Grain Embargo on the USSR  That embargo had a devastating effect on 
Rural America, since
suddenly there was a huge glut of grain that was destined for export but 
then had no market,
and an epidemic of bankruptcies farm foreclosures even suicides 
resulted... Do you remember "Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow."? 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Iy2Jw4DVk>

Now, after we paid this awful price in the early 80's for Carter's 
Folly, they want to sent our children
to Afghanistan to "fight terrorism" because the "terrorists are in 
Afghanistan". 

I told a young clipboard-bearing *Obamite* who was talking to me from 
the sidewalk by my house this week: 
/"From where I stand, it looks like to me that the Real Terrorists are 
in Washington, DC.  Those are
the terrorists that we'd better do something about."/

Bob Illyes wrote:
> Make that "but I have my doubts that further intervention would [have] 
> a good outcome".
>
> There was a "This American Life" program a while back about people who 
> attempted to do good but ended up doing harm, illustrating just how 
> hard it can be to make things better rather than worse for other 
> people. The notion that we can somehow "fix" Afghanistan is probably 
> both arrogant and foolish. I suspect that only the Afghans themselves 
> are up to sorting out the mess that we and the USSR made.
>
> Bob
>
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