[Peace-discuss] No enemies to the left

[Neil Parthun]

This is what I feared -- the Democrats, by and large, slinking to the  
defense of Obama, saying he has to engage in these destructive,  
imperial policies to avoid criticism from the far-right fringes of  
the American political discourse.

In talks with some friends, one of them put it quite succinctly: "No  
matter what Obama does to prove his hawkish bones and that the Dems  
are not 'soft on terror', the Republicans are always going to call  
him and the Dems a bunch of pussies.  But for some reason, rank-n- 
file Democrats think that by going over the top to make their bones  
to be 'tough on terror', 'tough on crime', etc., they will stop the  
allegations."

The far right is always going to call any non rightist a "pussy" --  
as the right would have killed more people, killed them faster, done  
it more effectively, et al.  Yet, the rank-n-file Democrats seem to  
feel that they need to fall in line to defend an indefensible policy  
-- the imperial occupation of a country and to dictate to them how to  
run their lives.

I know that the Democratic leadership is bought and sold by US  
corporate and imperial interests.  I just don't see why rank-n-file  
Democrats don't seem to want to stop this insanity.  Albert Einstein  
said the essence of insanity is doing the same thing over and over  
again and expecting a different result.  The rank-n-file Democrats  
have fallen behind LBJ during his bloodbath in Vietnam thinking that  
this would exorcise the idea of the 'weak in war' Democrats, Bill  
Clinton's bombings and deathdealing throughout the world and now the  
Obama run warfare.  Yet, the right still says they are soft on their  
"enemy" and the Dems think that further acquiescence of more hawkish  
policies will curb such criticism from the right.

Solidarity,
      Neil

The truth won't defend itself, though, and bastard or not, it's got me.
[warren ellis, 1968-]

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