[Peace-discuss] Guest commentary

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

On 08/12/13 0:07, David Green wrote:
> As long as American workers continue to fight wars for global 
> corporate capitalists, 
they will continue to lose in their own struggle for freedom and prosperity.

One of my father's cousins, Pete Hand, who played together with him as a 
little boy was killed
somewhere in Korea.  My grandmother had kept one of Pete's toys that he 
used to play
with when he visited them as a little tyke.  As I recall, it was some 
sort of a clown puppet made
of round and tubular and conical wooden blocks painted red and yellow 
maybe some other colors
strung on a rope of some sort. It's the faded red colour of wooden toys 
from the 30's that I recall.

As a young man in high school Pete Hand wrote something about the 
patriotic duty to go
and fight.  It displays a very radical sort of Rah-Rah-Rah! zeal for
involvement.  This sort of thinking can be used to get young men
wound up for war.  But this was a war of conscription not voluntarism
and my father was not drafted because of a knee injury he got on the farm,
and stayed behind, while Pete went on to Korea to accept his
rendezvous with death.

The Chinese did not perceive the American army as patriots but rather
as running dogs sent by the American Pharoah to fight against China.
The Chinese perceived that the US was seeking to use the Korean peninsula
as a base from which to unleash an imperialistic attack that would eat 
China.
The US government had supported Jiang Jieshi's Guomindang that later fled
to Taiwan, and it seemed reasonable to all that the US would try to 
intervene
against the PRC and undo the result of the Chinese Civil War.

It would be cruel but accurate to say to cousin Pete, and to Mr. Nasser---
You were duped.  You fought and sacrificed for nothing.  You were clown
puppets for an oligarchy that cares nothing about you.  You were only a 
number,
a statistic, a pawn in a game that has nothing to do with you other than 
that
you had some utility because you were at that time a able-bodied pawn.

They made merchandise of you and they called it your patriotic duty.

They suckered you, and they will do it to you over and over again
if you give them an inch of a chance.

/vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas...

verti me ad alia et vidi calumnias quae sub sole geruntur et lacrimas 
innocentum
et consolatorem neminem nec posse resistere eorum violentiae cunctorum 
auxilio destitutos/




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