[Peace-discuss] David Swanson: we've proved that we can stop wars

[Robert Naiman]

Preach it, David, preach it!

[...]
"The point is that those who nonsensically proclaim that stopping wars is
impossible cannot get away with saying that anymore.

You know the types.  They show up at meetings, wait for the
question-and-answer period, and then give a speech on how everything is
utterly hopeless.  Those speeches should be laughed away within the first
five seconds now.  And the many, many people who had begun ever so slightly
to take that defeatist nonsense seriously can now be relieved of that
weight.  The danger now is not of being a sucker who proclaimed good news
just before a genocide.  The danger is of joining in the foolish campaign
of the war propagandists by pushing the lie of powerlessness on people just
after they prevented a war."
[...]

http://michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/admit-it-things-are-going-well

-- 
Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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