I'm about to post excerpts from Stan Goff's compelling and important book about the US military in Haiti, "Hideous Dream". Soldiers have a specific way of relating to the truth: it matters to them. It is a matter of life and death to them. So they judge people by a different standard of truth. And they judge politics differently. They are the first to know what kind of power comes from the barrel of a gun. That is why soldiers make good revolutionaries, and that is why revolutions always acquire their most turbulent force and active expression among the men and women of the armed forces, the workers in uniform. Soldiers are political scientists. No-one is more interested than they are, in what they are asked to die for. For this reason, no-one is closer to the heart of the people than soldiers are. When the people are rotten, soldiers cannot fight. When the people rise up, it is the soldiers who are always first to the front ranks. We must learn to work amongst the armed forces. Stan Goff is a soldier, and he is a revolutionary. Stand by. Mark _______________________________________________ Crashlist resources: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/crashlist
