[Peace-discuss] Guest commentary

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Maybe I should see if my commentary is publishable in the N-G?

Certainly it lacks sensitivity...I'll grant that.

Pragmatism is hard to establish.

On 08/12/13 8:37, David Green wrote:
> 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
>
>     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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