[Peace-discuss] The disaster in Yemen

[Karen Aram]

We are in agreement on who is responsible, the “Deep State, political establishment, elite, one percent, etc.etc.” which comprises many, the Pentagon, the CIA, and our corporate owned Congress goes along with it. 

Yes, the potential impeachment of Trump is a distraction, like so many other things, which is why any concentration on Russiagate, which includes “defending Trump” is a distraction, and serves to divide between Dems and Repubs., left and right, bickering at one another over who is “the greater evil.” Which is why I generally refuse to indulge in conversations related to electoral politics, russiagate, or other nonsense. To be clear, there are issues within, related to domestic, such as racism, gun violence in the US, austerity policies, climate change, as well as poor social services which includes lack of health care, high taxes, etc. that are very important issues of concern. To refer to them as merely Identity Politics does a disservice to the victims, even if they are also a distraction from US foreign policy. 

We need to unite in common cause, to change the system. The system of capitalism is the root of all, and until this is recognized the abuse and exploitation will continue. 


> On Mar 24, 2018, at 08:40, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes. It’s US government policy, as it was in the Obama administration. As similar crimes were US government policy in the Kennedy administration.
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> There are no ‘anti-war liberals’ in the US government. Driving Trump from office, as the political establishment wishes to do, is a conscious attempt to distract the US public from the war crimes that the establishment supports, encourages, and wishes to expand, in pursuit of the profits of the one percent.
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> Trump is not the problem, and concentration on him - Russiagate, Mueller - is an establishment plot.
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> We should work to build an American anti-war movement, co-otped by liberals (Obama, Sanders, Warren et al.) in this century. 
> 
> —CGE
> 
>> On Mar 24, 2018, at 10:09 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> To be clear, the Yemen destruction began in March 2015 under the Obama Administration, but it is completely supported by the Trump Administration. 
>> The Saudi's could not do this if it weren't for the US. They need our bombs, our training and our logistics. This has been known since March 2015, and it hasn't changed. 
>> So, whose policy is it? 
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