[Marxism] Re: Wesley Clark: Friend or Foe?

[Craig Brozefsky <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"OpenSentence Type Foundry" <typefoundry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Frankly, military fatigues probably give you cancer; war is about
> death, and death on the cheap in all kinds of ways.  I'm not sure
> depleted uranium's the greatest environmental-exposure risk you can
> face, because I doubt it very much.

Please explain this to the people of Afghanistan and Yugoslavia who
face a few thousand years of depleted uranium contamination of their
land, air, and water.  I'm sure they'll also appreciate your help
explaining why their still-birth and birth-defect rates have increased
drastically.  Water, land, air, all poisoned, with significants amount
of research backing that up.  No "soldiers truth" will erase that, not
in tens of thousands of years.

> You've got to pick *your* battles.

Falsifying history and minimizing the deadly effects of a weapon of
mass destruction is not picking a battle.  Attempting to step around
inconvenient facts about someone who you find yourslf compelled to
vote for, is not picking a battle.  Voting for a war criminal is not
picking a battle.  It is admitting defeat and taking the easy way out,
especially when there are people in the race, and fighting hard to
stay in it, other than war criminals, and not from the Democratic
party.  If electoral politics is so hopeless that we have to lie to
ourselves, than it should be abandoned altogether.  I don't think it
is, and I have seen people fighting hard on various levels to express
their social power thru elections.  It takes hard work, it takes
setting aside months and months of your weekends, knocking on doors,
talking to people, learning to listen, listening to learn.

In the US we need to recognize that cynical capitulation within the
two party system, regardless of the twisted rational and
"real-politik" justifying it, is a DEAD END!  That is the real
"soldiers truth" on the battlefield we find ourselves on.


--
Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
No war! No racist scapegoating! No attacks on civil liberties!
Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism: www.chicagoantiwar.org


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