Max wrote, >If it's not too obvious, there is now a huge anti-war movement.
There is indeed a huge anti-war movement, but underneath my own personal NO WAR slogan is a long-standing critique of the cultural slagheap, political charade and actuarial abyss that has made this war (and the next one, and the next one...) so necessary for the ruling pretenders (it would be extravagent to call that gaggle of snake-oil Bonapartes a "class"). What we are seeing is analogous to a bankrupt who embezzles to cover-up the bankruptcy and then burns down the warehouse to cover-up the embezzlement. Next the bankrupt/embezzler/arsonist expects to collect on an insurance policy whose premiums were paid with counterfeit bills. A military victory for the U.S. is inevitable, at least to the extent that the type has already been set on the wire stories that affirm the triumph, regardless of what actually happens. We may as well resign ourselves to never knowing what really happened once the shooting starts. It's in the can. All we will know is what we will experience directly in the form of repression and privation. It ain't gonna be pretty. The warehouse fire will not magically restore the bankrupt to prosperity. The task of the anti-war movement will be to understand and explain why the war itself was not the sole cause of the hardships -- to pin the PNAC tail on the (emblematic) Enron donkey, so to speak. Keywords: Bankrupt, embezzlers, arsonists. Tom Walker 604 255 4812
