[Peace-discuss] retraction

[C G Estabrook]

What are effective ways now to demand Congress end that war? And the others?

The US is making war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and of course Syria, as well as Yemen. Thousands of U.S. troops are killing people in these countries, and more than a quarter of a million are stationed in a thousand US bases on foreign soil, most of them ringing Russia and China. The 70,000-members of the U.S. ‘Special Operations Command’ are active in no less than three-quarters of the countries of the world. Their activities include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder.   

But the US government - cannier now than 50 years ago - has actively avoided the rise of popular outrage. By 1969 about 70% of the public had come to regard the war in Vietnam as “fundamentally wrong and immoral,” not “a mistake,” largely as a result of the impact of student protest on general consciousness. And that mass opposition compelled the business community and then the government to stop the escalation of the war.

But the propaganda shield is more sophisticated now, from Russiagate to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

What Is To Be Done? —CGE


> On Jul 28, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> I wouldn't have argued with Carl so strongly about the proposition that the world would be better off or worse off if Dems take the House if I had not believed at the time that Dems would help us end the U.S.-Saudi war in Yemen. I agree with him completely about the horrible ick of Dems becoming the anti-Russia party. I was quite certain that was outweighed by the possibility of ending the war in Yemen, which has pushed millions of human beings to the edge of starvation, and will push ten million more to the edge of starvation by the end of the year if it is not stopped. 
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> I don't believe that anymore. I don't believe anymore that Dems are going to help us end the war in Yemen. I believed that because that's what I was told by people whom I had good reason to trust. But they reneged. So now that's an open question for me; maybe they will, maybe they won't, but I have no basis for believing that they will. 
> 
> Thus, I don't care anymore if Dems take the House. 
> 
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