[Peace-discuss] Major truth, completed

[C. G. Estabrook]

"The new expanded secret war required a special appropriation which leading 
Democrats secretly approved, after listening to the request in secret session. 
They voted $300 million for the covert operations, which are a major escalation 
towards open war on Iran..."

This news story illustrates the major truth mentioned in passing in Slavoj 
Zizek's new book, In Defense of Lost Causes: he writes of the need 

"to break the vicious cycle of left-liberal blackmail ('if you do not vote for us, 
the Right will limit abortion, implement racist legislation...'), and to profit from 
old Marx's insight into how intelligent conservatives often see more (and are 
more aware of the antagonisms of the existing order) than liberal progressives." 

That's why, with few exceptions, we get principled opposition to war in Iran 
(and Iraq and Afpak and Palestine) not from Democrats but from paleo-
conservatives such as those around the journal American Conservative (and Ron 
Paul). A notable recent example is Bill Kauffman's new book, "Ain't My America: 
The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-
Imperialism."  --CGE