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Have We Forgotten How to End Wars?
Will the death of Osama bin Laden bring change in US policy? Last week on this show, one by one, our guests said no. Hopes are one thing; likely reality is something else.
Meanwhile, criticizing the killing seems to have become taboo and even progressives who were vociferous against Bush now cheerlead for extrajudicial targeted assassination inside a sovereign state.
President Obama told the country on 60 Minutes, again, that justice was served. Those who disagree, he said, need to have their heads examined.
It's a kindler, gentler, "with us or against us," but Obama's words are having the same impact. Shutting down debate. Sparking shouting matches, on TV, on Twitter, face to face.
Due process, not war, in terror cases -- which John Kerry and the Democrats ran on, not even a decade back -- As one sad viewer put it to me this week -- "Due process is dead and I miss it."
A tiny bit of hope came this week when Democracy for America sent out an email to its supporters calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan. We might not be able to stop the cheering, but if we work together, maybe we can finally stop the war, say some. DFA is catching up with the majority of Americans who've polled for pull out for years now -- and they're partnering with four Senate co-sponsors of a bill to do just that.
But a warning to DFA and those valiant politicians: it's hard to rally people around issues of war and peace at the best of times -- and even harder when standing up for ideals like justice and the rule of law has liberals aiming at your heads.
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Show All(careful what you wish for - remember how the war against Japan ended?)
"President Obama told the country on 60 Minutes, again, that justice was served. Those who disagree, he said, need to have their heads examined."
I guess my head needs examining...
vdb
well if you find a head examiner, who decrees there is absolutely nothing wrong with your head, could you please give me the address/telephone number so i can also have my head examined by someone who is in touch with reality......................
Laura: We have not forgotten how to end wars. The people who run America's war racket, have absolutely no desire to see their criminally, insane, filthy lucre, and evil racket end! Like Wall Street, International Banking Cartels, Halliburton, Big Oil, Raytheon, Lockheed, GE, XE, and the rest of the war profiteers of America's fascist, corportocracy. They love wars! It is too bad we do not have a list of names and addresses of these people that worship and trade $$$$ for blood and seem to have no conscience. These nihilistic, war mongers are hiding behind the corporate veil of their respective companies and it is way past time the major stockholders of these wars for profits; banks and companies were exposed, before their insanity gets us all killed!
"Meanwhile, criticizing the killing seems to have become taboo and even progressives who were vociferous against Bush now cheerlead for extrajudicial targeted assassination inside a sovereign state."
My recollection is progressives criticized Bush not for going after Bin Laden, but for not going after him. We criticized him for pulling out resources early in the Afghan War to go after Iraq. If Bush wasn't a tool of the neocons, the Afghan War might have ended at Tora Bora and there would have been no Iraq War. That's the criticism. No one had an issue with going after Bin Laden.