[Peace-discuss] Monthly message

[C. G. Estabrook]

Those who voted for Obama to end the war and improve the economy were the more 
deceived.  He has instead completed Bush's war in Iraq and waged a more brutal 
and aggressive war from Palestine to Pakistan -- part of America's "Long War" to 
control Mideast energy resources.

America's invasion and occupation of the Mideast are comparable to Japan's 
invasion of Manchuria or Germany's invasion of eastern Europe.  The US (and its 
client Israel) wants war in the Mideast and so discourages peace offers: if 
peace were to break out, there'd be no excuse for American military control of 
the region.

And while the rich got richer and the poor poorer at an accelerating rate in the 
Bush years, it seems that there will be no substantial change under Obama.  Only 
banks are bailed out.

The Democrats' misrepresentation of their policies has become so great that an 
anti-war/anti-Wall Street critique is emerging in America. It's not clear that 
the Republican party -- once, long ago, as opposed to wage-slavery as it was to 
chattel slavery -- can be the vehicle for such a critique. New political forms 
-- outside the "two-party system" designed to constrain public protest  -- will 
be necessary if a semblance of democracy is to be restored in the US.

The economy -- Wall Street and business corporations -- have to be brought under 
democratic control.  And US troops -- and their clients and mercenaries -- must 
get out of the Mideast.

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