[Peace-discuss] Guest commentary

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

the tireless oppression
the wisdom instilled
the desire to kill
or be killed...
- Anderson, writing as G. Bostock.


On 08/12/13 9:33, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> The Chinese account is obviously far closer to the truth than the version most Americans believe - and that of course is no accident.
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> Chomsky noted in 1992, "People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know." (He was discussing "free trade" treaties, of the sort Obama is working on secretly now, for both Europe and the Pacific. These are of course inverstors' rights agreement - not free trade at all - and they need to be done in secret because they're against the interests of the vast majority. They serve the interests only of Obama's masters, the [fraction of the] 1%.)
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> The task is to get people to recognize whose interests Obama's military and economic policies serve - while he provides rhetoric and sops ("Obamacare") to the masses.
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> (BTW, for those who had only useful educations, Wayne's quotation reads, "I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any" [Ecclesiastes 4:1].)
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> The next line is also apropos: et laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes: "and I praised the dead rather than the living."	
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> --CGE
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> On Aug 11, 2013, at 7:37 PM, David Green<davegreen84 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
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>> Granted. I think pragmatism and sensitivity, not to mention publishability, suggests presenting the case against the war, and letting people make their own conclusions, which should be obvious, about the needless waste of human life--on all sides.
>> From: E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森<ewj at pigsqq.org>
>> To: David Green<davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: David Johnson<dlj725 at hughes.net>; "peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net"<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 6:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Guest commentary
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>> On 08/12/13 0:07, David Green wrote:
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>>> As long as American workers continue to fight wars for global corporate capitalists,
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>> they will continue to lose in their own struggle for freedom and prosperity.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> They made merchandise of you and they called it your patriotic duty.
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>> They suckered you, and they will do it to you over and over again
>> if you give them an inch of a chance.
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>> vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas...
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>> 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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