Re: [Marxism] The low point of the CNN-You Tube debate

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

"Joaquin is dead right to point out the murderous nature of the
occupation but *propaganda* has to be crafted in such a way that is
effective. You will not reach soldiers or their families with propaganda
that forces them in effect to plead guilty to murder even if that is
what they are doing."

Really? The only people who will reach the soldiers are the soldiers  
themselves. The only soldiers who will reach the other soldiers are  
the ones who recover their conscience and admit to their crimes, like  
those morally brave veterans who organized the Winter Soldier  
tribunal during the Vietnam War. They definitely pleaded guilty to  
murder, and explained how they were forced into committing war crimes  
by their superior officers until they could no longer live with  
themselves and their criminal actions. During the tribunal they  
publicly confessed their collective barbarity and came clean in front  
of the cameras and the american public. How low we have sunk when we  
cannot even envisage something similar today. The USA has definitely  
reached the nadir of barbarism. I don't know how we can sink any  
lower. Perhaps the grunts could redeem themselves with a full-scale  
fragging campaign, starting at the top and working their way down to  
the captains and lieutenants, if that remains necessary. Then the  
Iraqi resistance can finish off the mercenaries.

Greg

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