[Peace-discuss] Kinzer: Surge Diplomacy, Not Troops, in Afghanistan

[Neil Parthun]

As Capone used to say "A kind word and a gun gets you more than a  
kind word alone."

Letting our Congress members and Senators know what we think via  
email, calls, etc. is one way of letting them know.  Another is  
getting out into the streets in protests.  Another being knocking on  
doors, talking to people to promote a level of civil unrest a la  
1968.  This is a time where people can become easily radicalized  
through their experience.

None of these tactics are mutually exclusive nor should they be.   
Kind words from progressives, leftists, socialists, etc. is not going  
to get the job done and we know that.  It is going to take agitation  
and levels of solidarity that I don't know are possible right now --  
but could be built in this country.  I don't think, Carl, that  
anybody is suggesting that we just ask Obama nicely and be done with  
it.  We put just as much pressure on him as we'd put on anybody to do  
the damn socially just things that a President should be doing -- by  
ending the criminal wars in the Middle East, et al. -- while asking  
him to end the wars via traditional means as well.

Live without dead time,
      Neil

  With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I  
hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful  
because that's what really happens.
[fannie lou hamer, 1917-1977]
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