Menu

Bush's Draft is starting

Search this Thread

Previous Post

Next Post

#23

Report Post

Old

August 26th 06, 12:43 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc

David is offline

external usenet poster

First recorded activity by RadioBanter: Jul 2006

Posts: 837

Default

Bush's Draft is starting

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:53:36 -0400, wrote:

The war, which continues in Iraq, is the culminating episode in the
long 20th-century history of the rebellion of the colonized against
the empires of the west: it is the story of Vietnam, Algeria and the
Congo, of Nicaragua and the Lebanon, of Chilean guerrillas, Australian
Aborigines and Celtic nationalists, of all the counter-cultural forces
of the century past.

And to understand such an epochal struggle across the continents, we
don't need to get exercised about weapons or mobile labs as possible
causes. The reason for what happened lies in the nature of America's
hegemony in 2004, the solitude of its self-understanding, the tragedy
of its geographically enforced isolation, and the sum total of over a
century of European, and especially British, meddling in the Middle
East. The always invented cause is a throw-away prop to argument: it
can come and go. But the reason was there long before the deeds of
war. We did not need the Iraq war to happen to establish our knowledge
of the nature of US power, and British collusion in that omnipotence.

This is why Iraq troubles the way we live now, and have lived for a
long time. It is a call to self-examination and the national
conscience, neither of which are natural ports of call for the breezy
certitudes and quick collapses of British journalism.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0311-04.htm

Reply With Quote

Reply With Quote

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes
Switch to Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Threaded Mode

Posting Rules
Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are On

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Bush's Draft is starting	[email protected]	General	56	September 4th 06 10:26 PM
Here is My Resume. Who Am I?	private	Scanner	10	December 17th 03 08:50 PM
Why did Bush run away from service in Vietnam?	RHF	Shortwave	1	July 21st 03 10:46 PM

All times are GMT +1. The time now is 03:35 PM.

About Us

"It's about Radio"

Contact Us RadioBanter forum home Privacy Statement

Copyright © 2017