[Peace-discuss] U.S. Out of Afghanistan Now

[John W.]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

If by "long-range mind-reading" you mean attempting to understand what the
> US government is actually doing, behind its propaganda, I should think that
> that was the first thing a group that wants to be AWARE should be doing.
>  --CGE
>

Carl....If we FULLY and COMPLETELY (am I being redundant?) accepted your
analysis of what the US government is doing, and has been doing for the past
50 or 100 years....what would be the basis for any hope whatsoever?  Why
wouldn't we just blow our brains out or set ourselves on fire, or retreat
into hedonism or the oblivion of alcohol or drug addiction, or something?
Why go on with any sort of political/civic involvement?

J.W.




> Ricky Baldwin wrote:
>
 Our local efforts might be better spent, as usual, trying to organize
>> something similiar here rather than long-range mind-reading.
>>
>> Ricky
>>
>> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 10/6/09, C. G. Estabrook /<galliher at illinois.edu>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> Subject: [Peace-discuss]
>> U.S.
>> Out of Afghanistan Now To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>> Date:
>> Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 9:53 PM
>>
>> [Dispelling some of the mendacious fog about how the "Obama team is really
>> rethinking Afghanistan" (when all they're doing, of course, is trying to
>> find
>> the best way to enforce their colonial control). --CGE]
>>
>> "The organizers of the October 7th protests note that the war and
>> occupation
>> of Afghanistan is linked to U.S. interests in controlling strategic energy
>> resources and markets in central Asia."
>>
>> Students to Protest Afghan War on 25 Campuses (Oct. 7) Posted: 06 Oct 2009
>> 08:20 AM PDT
>>
>> From the Students for a Democratic Society Antiwar Working Group:
>> Demonstrations mark 8th anniversary of Afghan War -– demand immediate
>> U.S./NATO withdrawal
>>
>> Students on 25 campuses across the United States will protest eight long
>> years of war against and occupation of the people of Afghanistan, on
>> Wednesday October 7. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a
>> nation-wide
>> student organization committed to activism for peace, justice and
>> equality,
>> are organizing the protest...
>
>
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