[PLUG-TALK] Anti-war vs war mongers. (ick)

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I've yet to meet a combat vet who was gung-ho on war, least of all a
> trumped-up war like the one with Iraq. It's so easy to beat that drum
> when other people are sent away to do the dirty work.

All aggressors want peace... peace on their own terms.

> It's embarrassing to even have to point this out, it's so obvious-
> criticizing Administration policy, and criticizing our excellent
> servicepeople, are not the same things. The women and men in our armed
> services are fine people serving their country, and they deserve a
> much better Commander in Chief. This Administration is scary. They're
> going to drive us into a world war, for no good reason at all.

The reasons are obvious, when you look.

The "American way of life" (as perpetrated in the media and textbooks and
such) cannot exist without subjugation of the third world and silent
consent to the destruction of the environment.

That way of life must change in order to peacefully coexist with the rest
of the world (who clearly cannot abide the gross excesses of that way).

Those who profit most from this perceived ideal lifestyle are in power
today.  When a mode of existence (like the "American way of life") has a
particular set of beneficiaries who control finite resources (like the
captains of American industry), the system automatically builds itself up
to resist change.  The power structure is in place to continue this
wasteful, oppressive, destructive process at any cost.

J.
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