Re: [A-List] A War Protest Falls Short in Manhattan

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Leighm wrote:
> 

> When I broached the subject of how the war in Iraq (I left out the
> "elsewhere as well") is required to support that suburban way of life
> (and the long fuel guzzling commute), devilducky horns apparently grew
> from my head and no one seemed to want to discuss it. Nor would they
> lend me a sign to hold FACING traffic...

This is simply not true -- and the widespread belief in it interferes
with building as strong a movment as we might. The U.S. would continue
to get all the oil it needs (and at a much cheaper price) if it pulled
out of the mideast entirely. What is at stake in the mideast, and what
has _always_ been at stake there for over a century is _control_ of the
oil supply as well as control of an areat that links almost everything
else. The war in fact is endangering the so-called "suburban way of
life" rather than supporting it.

Carrol