[Peace-discuss] CNN's N. S. Sherlock and Shirley Knott

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I don't think that there will be much rounding up and laying hands on 
scapegoats
to bear the sins of the American masses in the aftermath of this one.

Nor will they suddenly wake up and say Omigod, what have we done?

Fragmentation of the Untied States seems to be the only possible 
solution, as Bill Kauffman has
discussed if not prescribed, although one can likewise imagine being 
pursued by the
fragments, terminator style.


On 11/27/2010 12:34 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> What would we have said of a liberal political group in Germany in 
> 1944 that complained that it was too expensive to run both the 
> concentration camps /and/ the war in Russia, and therefore that it was 
> time to economize, downsizing each operation...?  I don't think that 
> would have saved them at Nuremberg.
>
> On 11/26/10 10:22 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> >
>
> >
>
> > Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?
>
> >
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> >
> http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/23/war.afghan/index.html
>
> >
>
> > "...John Cioffi, a political science professor at University
> of
>
> > California, Riverside, says the nation's "increasingly
> unhinged
>
> > ideological politics" makes it difficult for the country to
> extract
>
> > itself from battles in Afghanistan, Iraq and Central Asia.
> _"The
>
> > U.S. is not on the path to permanent war; it is in the midst
> of a
>
> > permanent war,"_ Cioffi says. Permanent war is made possible
> by
>
> > massive defense spending that has been viewed as untouchable.
> But
>
> > that may change with the recent financial crisis and the
> decline of
>
> > the nation's industry, Cioffi says. More ordinary Americans
> might
>
> > conclude that they can't have a vibrant domestic economy and
>
> > unquestioned military spending, Cioffi says. /"All this
> points to a
>
> > time in the future when the government will no longer have
> the
>
> > resources or popular support to maintain what amounts to an
> imperial
>
> > military presence around the world/," he says.
>
> >
>
> > ****
>
> >

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