[Peace-discuss] president's speech on afghanistan - emergency response...

[C. G. Estabrook]

This is a poem.  (But you mean "As if ... were ...")

But do we risk praising just killing some people?

"And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'?"


Karen Medina wrote:
>> won't get his 40,000 troops but only, say 10,000 -- and maybe only trainers?
>>  Would we be seen as applauding presidential restraint?
> 
> 
> Short of withdrawal, I am in favor of rallying.
> 
> 10,000 trainers.
> As if our military had an answer.
> And if they had an answer, as if our military could train without
> knowing the language and the culture.
> And if they knew the languages and the cultures, as if there were
> people to train. ...
> As if!
> 
> As if the problem was in Afghanistan.
> As if the problem was isolated.
> As if the problem was contained or containable.
> As if the problem had a beginning .
> As if the problem was identified and spoken honestly of.
> As if.
> 
> -karen medina
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> A good idea -- but what do we do if the administration chooses one of the
>> "four options" (from its present propaganda blitz) that would say McChrystal
> 
>> Tim Johnson seems to be committed to a demand for withdrawal, and I would
>> presume would continue to be so, regardless of what Obama does, short of
>> withdrawal.  That would seem to me to be the basis on which to organize a
>> rally.
>>
>>
>> Robert Naiman wrote:
>>> press speculation would suggest better than even odds that sometime in
>>> November, the President will give a speech announcing that he intends
>>> to send tens of thousands of more troops to Afghanistan in 2010.
>>>
>>> I propose to spread around in advance the idea that there will be
>>> a demonstration at the Vets Memorial in Urbana at 5pm the day of the
>>> president's speech.
>>>
>>> the idea of 5pm the day of the speech is to try to get into the
>>> president's news cycle. so that when people are watching the local tv
>>> news, the first thing they see is the president's announcement and the
>>> second thing they see is the local reaction: "but local protesters say
>>> that escalation is not the answer."
>>>
>>> I furthermore propose that we invite Tim Johnson to speak. he's
>>> rock-solid on this. now that's man bites dog.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robert Naiman
>>> Just Foreign Policy
>>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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