Michael Smith writes: The point is not that it's illegitimate; the point is that they're lying about it. There is not way Iran could address the 'concerns' os the US and Israel and probably the oil sheikhs, too, except by exhuming the Shah and propping his putrid corpse back on the Peacock Throne. ---------
Yes. Moreover, since U.S. citizens can not possibly have any effect in the immediate future on u.s. foreign policy, the desire expressed in the subject line belongs in a fairy tale, not in the actual world. It assumes what is obviously false: that the political elite of the U.S. and the E.U. actually believe their own charges -- the point of which is simply to set up the framework which will give them a free hand to operate as they choose in reference to Iran. That may mean war; it may not: I would think more probable a serious attempt to subvert the regime as they did that of Mossedegh 60 years ago. But we can't affect that one way or the other. Robert N clearly has no remote sense of what a People's Movement is or how it might be built. Hence he puts his faith in persuading the criminals not to continue their criminal activity. (That is the only possible material content of an appeal to Obama.) The alternative to the Crackpot Realism that Robert N espouses is to take a longer view. We can't have an immediate impact, but we can use this occasion (as many around the nation are already doing) to strengthen the core that now exists for building a mass movement in the U.S. (and in the E.U.) to oppose u.s. (and E.U) foreign policy. (And if anything could have a short range impact it would be if such an effort were successful enough to become visible, to show its future potential for disruption of "Business as Usual. I'm not sanguine on that, but it is certainly superior to Robert's opium dream persuading Obama et al to be "reasonable." Carrool _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
