This vote opens a can of worms: all progressives should take note. At the very least, it will mean that *our* reasons for opposing the war will be less visible publicly than theirs. While making an antiwar position more viable, the House vote will make our political task more difficult. Worse, there will be a tendency on the part of some on the left to link up opportunistically with the opposition on the right -- just as we saw during the NAFTA debate. People will look for arguments, and ways of phrasing arguments, that are just a little ambiguous and help cement the fragile left-right coalition. I would strongly urge all those whose opposition to the war is part of a larger, principled political project to refuse coalitions with the its-not-in-our-national-interest right. Peter Robert Naiman wrote: > > In a truly historic vote, the United States House of Representatives refused to > support the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. > > This unprecedented vote of no-confidence in the Administration's war policy may > embolden the Greens in Germany to take a similar stand. Let's hope so. > > 26 Democrats voted against the Administration. Not surprisingly, the list below > has a lot of overlap with the list of Democrats who opposed the $18 billion > dollar appropriation last year for the IMF. > > To paraphrase Margaret Mead, never doubt that a small number of committed > individuals can do serious damage to the Empire. > > Keep up the pressure. I understand that tensions are running high in the > offices of some pro-war Democrats. > > Dems Voting Against the War(26) > --------------------------- > Abercrombie > Goode > Baldwin > Hall (TX) > Rivers > Inslee > Jackson (IL) > Serrano > Kleczka > Kucinich > Condit > Lee > Stark > Lipinski > Danner > Lofgren > DeFazio > Taylor (MS) > DeGette > Doggett > McKinney > Towns > Visclosky > Mink > Woolsey > Peterson (MN) > ------------------------------- > Robert Naiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Preamble Center > 1737 21st NW > Washington, DC 20009 > phone: 202-265-3263 > fax: 202-265-3647 > http://www.preamble.org/ > -------------------------------
