Obama honors Martin Luther King, one of the greatest anti war activists ever, and then goes back to perpetual war 3 days later.
Scott *THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW* <http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/12/21/roots-john-kerry-secretary-state-ambition-lie-wake-defeat/kBhd57q7n0LZVY4GYLIeOO/story.html> *Does anyone remember the John Kerry of 1971, when, newly returned from Vietnam, he was a leader in the anti-war movement, and he spoke before a Congressional committee<http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Testimony>trying to convince them that Vietnam was a debacle and that American soldiers were torturing and slaughtering civilians left and right? What happened to that John Kerry? What happened to the seeker of peace? Now he's as extreme a warmonger as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Now, he's urging the U.S. to bomb Syria. Now, he even admits that the imperial excursion might call for ground troops <http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/10748>. * * * *Who is this John Kerry? -LS* ** ------------------------------ *ALLIES* [image: Pearl Harbor Not Actually an act of WAR... just a limited air strike with no boots on the ground. (THINK ABOUT IT)] <http://pinterest.com/pin/184436547213316048/> *Cutting out the heart of your enemy and eating it? On tape? These are the people<http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2013/05/14/syria-rebel-organ-eating-video/>Obama, Kerry, McCain, et. al. want to cooperate with?? -LS * ** ------------------------------ *ECONOMIC RECOVERY MY ASS* ** *The Obama administration continues to push for Larry Summers to head the Fed<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/06/media-acquiescence-larry-summers-supporters>. Summers was a major advocate of bank deregulation during the Clinton administration, leading us to the economic crash of 2008 and the crimes of bankers that continue to this day. But hey, no problem -- what're a few more million people out of work and out of homes, as long as the rich get what they want? -LS* * * ** ------------------------------ *I've said it till I'm blue in the face: if a Republican were in the White House now, the liberal establishment would be screaming bloody murder. But because a Democrat is, there's a lot of coughing, harrumphing, shuffling of feet, and looking the other way. It's hypocrisy. And it's indefensible. - *Lisa Simeone <http://abombazine.com> What Happened to the Anti-War Movement?<http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_happened_to_the_anti-war_movement_20130905> By David Sirota <http://www.truthdig.com/david_sirota/> *A mere 72 hours after President Obama delivered an encomium honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, he announced his intention to pound yet another country with bombs.* *The oxymoron last week was noteworthy for how little attention it received. Yes, a president memorialized an anti-war activist who derided the U.S. government as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Then that same president quickly proposed yet more violencethis time in Syria.* *Among a political press corps that rarely challenges the Washington principle of kill foreigners first, ask questions later, almost nobody mentioned the contradiction.* Even worse, as Congress now debates whether to launch yet another military campaign in the Middle East, the anti-war movement that Dr. King representedand that so vigorously opposed the last waris largely silent. Sure, there have been a few perfunctory emails from liberal groups, but there seems to be little prospect for mass protest, raising questions about whether an anti-war movement even exists anymore. *So what happened to that movement? The shorter answer is: It was a victim of partisanship.* Thats the conclusion that emerges from a recent study by professors at the University of Michigan and Indiana University. *Evaluating surveys of more than 5,300 anti-war protestors from 2007 to 2009, the researchers discovered that the many protestors who self-identified as Democrats withdrew from anti-war protests when the Democratic Party achieved electoral success in the 2008 presidential election.* Had there been legitimate reason to conclude that Obamas presidency was synonymous with the anti-war cause, this withdrawal might have been understandable. But thats not what happenedthe withdrawal occurred even as Obama was escalating the war in Afghanistan and intensifying drone wars in places like Pakistan and Yemen.* The researchers thus conclude that during the Bush years, many Democrats were not necessarily motivated to participate in the anti-war movement because they oppose militarism and warthey were instead motivated to participate by anti-Republican sentiments.* *Not surprisingly, this hyper-partisan outlook and the lack of a more robust anti-war movement explain why political calculations rather than moral questions are at the forefront of the Washington debate over a war with Syria.* In that Beltway back and forth, the national media has focused as much on the horserace (will an attack politically weaken the president?) and political tactics (should the president have submitted to a congressional vote?) than on whether an attack would actually make things better in Syria. Similarly, a top Democratic strategist told CNN that potential Republican opposition to a Syria attack will coalesce Democrats around the president in support of a military strike. Confirming that dynamic, Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said a war resolution will pass not because of the supposed merits of an attack on Syria, but simply because of loyalty of Democrats who just dont want to see (Obama) shamed and humiliated on the national stage. *This is red-versus-blue tribalism in its most murderous form. It suggests that the party affiliation of a particular president should determine whether or not we want that president to kill other human beings. It further suggests that we should all look at war not as a life-and-death issue, but instead as a sporting event in which we blindly root for a preferred political team.* *An anti-war movement is supposed to be a check on such reflexive bloodlust. It is supposed to be a voice of reason interrupting the partisan tribalism. When it, too, becomes a victim of that tribalism, we lose something more than a political battle. As the distorted debate over Syria proves, we lose the conscience that is supposed to guide us through the most vexing questions of all.* *David Sirota is the best-selling author of the books Hostile Takeover, The Uprising, and Back to Our Future. 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