"ʻAʻohe mea i hoʻāpono ʻia"
Ua loaʻa iaʻu he leka uila ʻoluʻolu mai koʻu "progressive" Congressman David Loebsack (D, IA). ʻO Loebsack he Democrat "liberal" i holo i ka manaʻo antiwar i ka Hale o nā Lunamaka'āinana o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i ka makahiki i hala.
Penei ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka leka uila: "E ke hoalauna, he mahalo nui mākou i nā koa i uku i ke kumukūʻai hope loa a me ka poʻe i hoʻi me ka mahalo i ko lākou ʻohana a me nā hoaaloha."
ʻO kēia kā Loebsack ka hoʻonohonoho ʻana i ka hae hae no ka hoʻoikaika ʻana i kekahi mau mea kumu i kākoʻo maikaʻi loa i ka "progressives": hoʻomaikaʻi kālā a me nā lako no ke olakino, hoʻonaʻauao, a me ka pono o ka poʻe kahiko.
Aia ka leka uila i kahi kiʻi o Loebsack e hāʻawi ana i "mau manaʻo maikaʻi no ka hoʻi palekana i ka home" i kahi hui ʻo Iowa National Guard i hoʻouna ʻia i Iraq.
Ma ka uhi o kēia leka uila, ua hoʻopili ʻo Loebsack i ka ʻōlelo a George Washington: "ʻo ka makemake o kā mākou poʻe ʻōpio e lawelawe i ke kaua, ʻaʻohe mea kūpono ʻole, e pili pono i ko lākou ʻike ʻana i ka poʻe kahiko o nā kaua mua. ua mālama ʻia a mahalo ʻia e ko lākou lāhui.
ʻAʻole ʻo Loebsack i wehewehe pololei i ke kumu o ka ʻaiʻē ʻana o kona poʻe koho i ka poʻe i hahai i nā kauoha e hoʻouka a noho i Iraq. ʻO ia ka mea i pale aku ai nā pūʻali koa iā mākou mai kahi hoʻouka kaua Iraqi me ka "mea kaua luku nui" (WMD) ʻole o Iraqi? Ua mālama lākou iā mākou mai ka hana hoʻoweliweli, kahi i lilo ai mākou i mea maʻalahi e ka hoʻonāukiuki nui a me ka hewa nui o ka US aila noho ma Mesopotamia? ʻO nā pūʻali koa "hoʻokauwā" (hoʻouka ʻia) ma ko mākou wahi… ua hoʻouka lākou iā Iraq ma ke kauoha a Cheney lāua ʻo Bush i ʻole mākou?
ʻAʻole ʻo Loebsack i wehewehe i ke kumu e makemake ai kāna poʻe koho "ʻo kā mākou poʻe ʻōpio" e "makemake ... ʻAʻole ʻo ia e wehewehe i ke kumu e hilinaʻi ai mākou i kā mākou poʻe kālai'āina (Repubalika a i ʻole Democratic) e koho a hoʻokau i nā "kaua wale nō" ma hope o ʻehā a me ka hapa makahiki o ka "ʻAmelika" i ka hoʻouka kaua ʻole a me ka waiwai Democrat-hiki iā Iraq.
ʻAʻole hāʻawi ʻo Loebsack i ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i kēlā mau koa i kūpono i ka mahalo nui ʻia a me ka mahalo nui mai ʻAmelika a me nā kamaʻāina honua: ʻo ka poʻe i loaʻa. Ua hōʻole wiwo ʻole ʻo ia e komo i ka ʻoihana petro-imperialist.
"Holomua" MA IRAQ HOLOCAUST
Ma mua o ka hoʻouna ʻana i kēia leka uila, ua hōʻike ʻo Loebsack i ka ʻike ʻana i "kekahi holomua" i ka noho ʻana o ʻAmelika i Iraq i ka wā o kahi huakaʻi ʻike ʻoiaʻiʻo i kēlā lāhui i hoʻouka ʻole ʻia (Jane Norman, "ʻIke ʻo Congressman i kekahi holomua ma Iraq," Des Moines Register Star, 23 ʻOkakopa 2007). Ua hoʻonāukiuki au i ka poʻe Democrats ma ka papa inoa "progressive" kūloko (Johnson County, Iowa) i koʻu hāʻawi ʻana i kēia i loko o kahi kūkākūkā o ka hōʻike a Loebsack: "ʻo ka noho ʻana o Iraq ('e pili ana i ka aila,' e like me ka Alan Greenspan i hōʻike koke ai) He maʻemaʻe a maʻalahi ka manaʻo o ka 'holomua' hoʻokipa i kāna hoʻokō ʻana… ʻaʻole kānalua ʻo Loebsack e manaʻo i ke 'kaua' (ʻaʻole i hea? ʻaʻole ma ʻaneʻi… -ʻaoʻao a me ka wiwo ʻole imperial kaua o colonial aggression) he hewa, he hewa nui ... he 'kaua leo' a me nā mea like, akā ʻaʻole hiki iā ia a ʻaʻole hoʻi e ʻae i ka lehulehu (a ʻaʻole hiki i ke koena o nā Dems me nā ʻokoʻa ʻē aʻe. e like me Kucinich a me Gravel) ka ʻoiaʻiʻo: 'Operation Iraq Freedom' (OIF) he hewa nui a hoʻomau i hoʻokau ʻia i kahi Holocaust ma luna o ka poʻe o Iraq (hoʻokahi miliona i make a miliona mau mea i koi ʻia e haʻalele i ko lākou ʻāina hānau). Manaʻo wau ua heluhelu ʻo Hitler i nā hōʻike o ka 'holomua' i nā hana o Polani a me Farani, etc.
ʻO kēia ʻōlelo haʻahaʻa aʻu i hoʻonāukiuki ai i kekahi mea hana ma lalo o ka hale liberal-academic-industrial-complex (he haumāna kauka kauka 40 a me ke kumu aʻoaʻo i ka "haʻawina moʻomeheu") e haʻi aku e hoʻouka koke ʻo ia iaʻu ma ke Kulanui kiʻekiʻe. o Iowa) hale lekiō.
KA PAʻani "STAB IN THE BACK".
ʻO kēia moʻolelo liʻiliʻi he ʻāpana o kahi pāʻani nui me nā mea mua e pili ana i ka politika i alakaʻi i ke ala ʻana o Hitler.
E like me ka mea i ʻike ʻia no kekahi manawa i kēia manawa, ke mākaukau nei ka mesia-militarist American Right e hoʻopiʻi i ka ʻaoʻao Demokarata "liberal" a me ka media no ka fiasco arch-criminal ʻo OIF.
Ua hoʻolālā ʻo George W. Bush ʻo George W. Bush i hoʻoheheʻe ʻia i ke koko e hāʻawi i kāna "kaua" colonial pōʻino (he kulekele hoʻomau o ka ʻaoʻao hoʻokahi ʻaoʻao imperial aggression) i ka hoʻokele pelekikena e hiki mai ana. ʻāpana i ke kūlana Iraq) e noho ʻia e kahi Democrat.
Ke hana nei e like me nā hoʻolālā maʻamau (Karl) Rove-ian, e ʻōlelo ka pūʻali koa-nationalist Republicans ʻo ke kumu maoli o ka moeʻuhane ma Iraq ʻo ka hiki ʻole o ka poʻe Democrats, ka media, a me ka poʻe ʻAmelika e "kākoʻo i nā pūʻali. ” ʻO ka "liberal" a me ka "hema" media, Democrats, a me ka lehulehu e hoʻopiʻi ʻia me ka "nalo" i ke "kaua" ma ke kau ʻana i kahi pahi ma ka ʻaoʻao o ka pūʻali koa pono. "Liberals," Democrats, antiwar activists a me nā "nāwaliwali" ʻAmelika e hoʻopiʻi ʻia i ka "negativity" a me ka "pessimism." E hoʻopiʻi ʻia lākou no ka hoʻohaʻahaʻa ʻana i kahi lāhui nui i ka "manawa kaua." E hoʻopaʻa ʻia lākou no ka holomua ʻana i ka "loser's mentality" i ka wā i hiki ai i kahi ʻuhane kāne o Manifest Destiny 21st century ke hoʻopuka i kahi Iraq lanakila lanakila no ʻAnakala Sam.
ʻO ia ka hoʻopiʻi kahiko "stab in the back", i hoʻohana ʻia i ka hopena maikaʻi e ka German Right against German Social Democrats, radicals, and liberals ma hope o ke Kaua Honua Mua. ʻIke iki mākou e pili ana i ka hopena.
ʻO ke kauoha no ka hoʻihoʻi ʻana i ka haʻaheo a me ka hanohano? E hoʻihoʻi mai i ka Party War maoli - ʻo ia ka mea wiwo ʻole a hilinaʻi i kona manaʻo paʻa e hoʻomalu i ka honua ma o ka nui o ka ikaika a me ka ʻuhane hao o ka makemake aupuni.
KUE I KE "KAUA" NO KA MEA HE KRIMINAL A ME IMPERIALIS V. KUE IA NO KA HANA AOLE.
ʻO ka ʻala ʻana i ka manawa kūpono a me ka pilikia i nā wai koho balota, ua paʻa ka ʻaoʻao Demokarata ma waena o (a) kona manaʻo pono e "nānā paʻakikī" i ka "palekana aupuni", (b) kāna mau hoʻohiki imperial ikaika, (c) ke kūlana pōʻino ma ka kahua i Iraq (kahi i ʻike ʻole ʻia ai ka "lanakila" o US), (d) ke koi e hōʻoluʻolu i ka hapa nui o ka US a me ke kahua koho holomua e inaina nei i ke "kaua" a ʻo ka manaʻo antiwar i hiki ai i nā Democrats ke lilo i ka hapa nui o ka Congress i ka hāʻule o 2006 .
Ke hoʻāʻo nei ka pāʻina e hele i kēia kaula ʻehā ma ka hoʻomau ʻana i ke kālā i ka noho ʻana ma Mesopotamia ʻoiai e hana ana i nā leo "holomua" e pili ana i ka hāʻawi ʻana i "ko mākou" poʻe koa pono i nā pale kino kūpono, ke kālā i ka mālama ʻana i nā poʻe kahiko, a me ka hoʻopau ʻana i ka palaho ʻano Haliburton i ka makana. o na aelike "pale". Hoʻomaikaʻi ʻo ia i "nā pūʻali" no kā lākou "ʻālana" hanohano e "pale" i ka "kūʻokoʻa" a me ka "palekana." Hoʻomaikaʻi ʻo ia i nā koa no ka haʻi ʻana i ka ʻōlelo a ka Council of Foreign Relations Barack Obama, "e hana ana i nā mea āpau a mākou e nīnau ai ... me ka nīnau ʻole." Hana ʻo ia i nā ʻōlelo i hoʻopaʻa pono ʻia e pili ana i "nā papa manawa" e "hoʻihoʻi mai i nā pūʻali i ka home"… i kekahi lā koke. Hoʻohewa ʻo ia i ka "incompetence" i mālama ʻia ai ka ʻoihana a ʻoiai (ʻoi loa i nā primaries o ka pelekikena) ke akamai (hoʻolālā) o ka hoʻomaka ʻana i ka hoʻouka kaua ma kahi mua. Hoʻohewa ʻo ia i kekahi manawa i ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā ʻano hana hoʻomāinoino loa a me ka mana - ʻo ia hoʻi ke kau ʻana i ka wai a me nā wili uila - i ka hoʻokō ʻana i nā kulekele a Bush ma ka home a ma waho.
Akā ʻaʻole ia e nīnau i nā ʻōlelo aʻoaʻo imperial ma hope o Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)[1] - nā ʻōlelo aʻo i kōkua lōʻihi i ka hoʻomohala ʻana. ʻAʻole ia e ʻae ʻo ka "kaua" ʻaʻole ia he kānāwai nui a "ʻoi loa [ka nui, PS] e pili ana i ka aila." ʻAʻole ia e ʻae ʻo ka "kaua" he hoʻopaʻi a he racist. A ʻaʻole makemake ʻo ia e kamaʻilio e pili ana i ka nui o nā hana ʻino i hana ʻia e kā mākou pūʻali koa i manaʻo ʻia he pono maoli i hana ai i nā makaʻāinana i ka hoʻokō ʻana i ka hana ʻino ākea ʻo ia ka hoʻouka kaua.
"Ke kū'ē nei ka poʻe Democrats i ke kaua" ʻaʻole no ka mea ʻaʻole hewa a moe kolohe ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana iā Iraq akā no ka hana ʻole. ʻAe lākou i kekahi manawa he kuhi hewa ka noho ʻana ("kaua") - he "kaua leo" (Obama) - akā ʻaʻole lākou e haʻi aku he hana hewa a hoʻomāinoino i alakaʻi ʻia e ka koi ʻana o ka honua-supremacist e hoʻonui i kāna. ka hoomalu ana i ka aila Hikina Hikina super-strategic.
ʻO kekahi poʻe Democrats alakaʻi - e laʻa, ʻo Edwards akā ʻaʻole ʻo Hillary Clinton (ʻo ia ka mea i hahai iā Bush II i ka ʻae ʻole ʻana i nā hewa a i ʻole nā hewa) - a me kekahi mau ʻāpana o ka media "liberal" (The New York Times a me ka Washington Post) ua kala mai no ka pāʻani ʻana me ka mea mua. ʻO nā hoʻopunipuni WMD i holomua ʻo Cheney-Bush e kūʻai aku i ka AILA (2). Akā, ʻaʻohe kalahala i hiki mai e pili ana i ka hoʻomau ʻana i ka pāʻani ʻana me nā ʻōlelo hoʻolaha demokala keiki like ʻole i hoʻokau ʻia i mua a i waena i ka wā i ʻike ʻia e ka hapa nui o ʻAmelika ua lilo ʻo Saddam's WMD i AWOL(3).
ʻO ka pilikia ma ʻaneʻi ʻaʻole ʻo ia wale nō ka moe kolohe o kēia laina pāʻina a me ka hōʻike ʻana i ke ʻano bipartisan waiwai o ke Aupuni ʻAmelika a me ka Bush Doctrine (4). ʻO ka pilikia ʻē aʻe, ʻo ia paha ka hana politika. E like me kā Jeremy Brecher lāua ʻo Brendan Smith i ʻike ai i ka pūnāwai i hala, "ʻoiai e lohe ka poʻe ʻAmelika [mai ka Democrats, PS] ʻo ka mea hewa wale nō i ke kaua ʻo ia ka nalo ʻana iā mākou," e noho mau ka poʻe Demokarata i ka hoʻopiʻi. ʻO kā lākou "hoʻokahuli" i lilo i ka US "lanakila" ma Iraq (5). ʻO ke ala i waho o kēia pilikia, ʻike ʻo Brecher lāua ʻo Smith, ʻo ia ka hoʻomaopopo ʻana, hōʻike, a hoʻohewa i ka hana he hewa a hoʻokuʻu i ka manaʻo imperial ʻo Iraq "no mākou" e "nalo."
Ke manaʻoʻiʻo a ʻōlelo paha ka poʻe Democrats i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka hoʻouka ʻana i ka aila kalaima me "ka manaʻo maikaʻi loa" (Obama) a pono e lanakila (ʻoiai inā he "hewa ka hoʻomaka mua ʻana"), e lilo lākou i mau pahuhopu kūpono. no ka hoʻopiʻi kaua-nationalist no ka "negativity," "spinelessness," "pessimism" a me "defeatism."
He mea hoʻohenehene paha ka palapala hoʻopiʻi a he mea lapuwale ke hāʻawi ʻana i ka makemake mau o ka poʻe Democrats e kālā i ke kaua a me ke kākoʻo ʻana i ka ʻōlelo hoʻopiʻi i hoʻomaka ʻia ke kaua e "hoʻokuʻu aku i ka democracy" (6). Akā hiki iā ia ke paʻa, hānai ʻia e ko lākou kaulike ʻana ma waena o ka hapa nui o ka antiwar a me ko lākou ʻike aupuni, ka manaʻoʻiʻo, a me ka pio.
No kēia a me nā kumu ʻē aʻe, hiki ke hoʻonui ʻia nā lono o ka make ʻana o ka noho aliʻi ʻino o ka poʻe Repubalika a me ka weliweli.
ʻO ka mea kākau moʻolelo radical veteran, ka mea kākau moʻolelo, a me ka haʻi'ōlelo Paul Street (paulstreet99@ yahoo.com) he mea hoʻopuka kālaiʻike anti-centrist ma Iowa City. ʻO Street ka mea kākau o Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004), Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York, NY: Routledge, 2005), and Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Place, and Policy in Chicago (Chicago, 2005) and The Empire and Inequality Report. ʻO ka puke hou a Street ʻo ia ka Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman and Littlefied, 2007).
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1. ʻAʻole ia he moʻolelo moʻokalaleo ʻo Dick Cheney lāua ʻo George W. Bush ka petro-imperialist "Operation Iraqi Freedom" i kapa mua ʻia ʻo "Operation Iraqi Liberation" a no laila ua hānau ʻia ka acronym ʻoi loa ʻo "OIL". E nānā iā Greg Palast, Armed Madhouse (New York: Plume, 2007) p.65.
2. E like me kā Laura Flanders i hōʻike ai, "i ka wā i noho ai ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana o ʻAmelika i Iraq ma ke kaulike, e kali ana i kahi koho balota ma ka ʻaha'ōlelo, ua kū ʻo Hillary i ka Senate Democratic-controlled a koho ʻo ia e hāʻawi i ka pelekikena i ka mana āna i ʻimi ai e hoʻoholo e hoʻouka. . ʻAʻole naʻe ʻo Clinton i hāʻawi wale iā Bush lāua ʻo Cheney i kāna koho balota, ua ʻae ʻo ia i kā lāua hoʻopaʻapaʻa, me ka ʻōlelo ʻana ua hana ka Pelekikena Iraqi ʻo Saddam Hussein 'e kūkulu hou i kāna mau mea kaua kemika a me nā mea ola ola… a me kāna papahana nuklea.' ʻO ia wale nō ma waena o nā Senators Democratic, ua hoʻopiʻi ʻo ia i ke alakaʻi o Iraq no ka hāʻawi ʻana i ke 'kōkua, hōʻoluʻolu, a me kahi hoʻāno i nā mea hoʻoweliweli, me nā lālā Al Qaeda.' ʻO kēlā loulou, i hoʻokau hilahila ʻole ʻia e ka hoʻomalu ʻo Bush, ua kānalua mau ʻia e ka hapa nui o ka mea i kapa ʻia ʻo 'naʻauao' - a ʻo ka hapa nui o nā Democrats, ʻaʻole e haʻi i ka poʻe hoʻohewa kaua. Ua hōʻike ʻia ma hope he wahaheʻe. " E nānā iā Laura Flanders, "Clinton: Papa o '68," p. 19 ma Flanders et al., The Contenders (New York: Seven Stories, 2008).
3. ʻO ka hoʻopunipuni WMD kekahi o nā wahaheʻe he nui i kūʻai aku i ka hoʻouka kaua. E ʻike i ke alanui ʻo Paul, "Nā moʻolelo moe no ka Herd Bewildered: Iraq War Fairy Tales in the Age of Never Mind Media," Z Magazine (Ianuali 2007): 33-37.
4. E like me kā Tuft's University kālai'āina ʻepekema ʻo Tony Smith i ʻike ai ma kahi ʻōlelo koʻikoʻi ʻo Washington Post i ka punawai i hala, "ʻoiai ua hoʻolilo lākou iā lākou iho i mau mea ʻokoʻa no ka Pelekikena Bush, ʻo ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻaʻole ʻokoʻa ka ʻōlelo aʻoaʻo Demokarata e kū nei me ke aʻo ʻana ʻo Bush-Cheney. Nui nā Democrats, me nā senators i koho e ʻae i ke kaua ma Iraq, ua ʻae i ka manaʻo o nā kulekele ʻē aʻe e pili ana i ka mana kiʻekiʻe o ʻAmelika a me ke kuleana i manaʻo ʻia e komo i ka hoʻolaha ʻana i ke aupuni demokala a i ʻole e pale i nā pono nui o US ma mua o 9/11, a ua loaʻa iā lākou. ʻaʻole i hoʻololi i ka papa mai ia manawa. ʻO ka poʻe i neʻe kūʻē i ke kaua ua pale aku i nā nīnau aʻoaʻo. " Ua kōkua ka ʻaoʻao alakaʻi i ka hoʻokumu ʻana i nā kulekele ʻē aʻe Democratic Party, e ʻōlelo ana ʻo Smith, e hāʻawi i "ka mea naʻauao o ka hapa nui o ke aʻo ʻana a Bush." Inā lanakila ka poʻe Democrats i ka Hale Paʻi ma 2008, manaʻo ʻo Smith "hiki iā lākou ke hoʻomau i ka manaʻo o kahi Pax Americana e hoʻomanaʻo nui ana iā Bush" Tony Smith (2007). "He Piʻi no ka poʻe Democrats: Pono lākou i kahi hoʻolālā honua, ʻaʻole wale no nā hana no Iraq," Washington Post, 11 Malaki 2007, loaʻa ma ka pūnaewele ma www.washingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/content/article/ 2007/03/09/AR2007030901884_ pf.html). Ma luna o nā Democrats a me ka Bush Doctrine, e nānā pū i Flanders, "Clinton: Class of '68," pp. 18-19. E pili ana i ke ʻano bipartisan nui o ka US imperial foreign policy a me ke aʻo ʻana, e ʻike pū iā Jeff Faux, The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future and What It Will Take to Win It Back (New York: Wiley, 2006), mokuna ʻelima , i kapa ʻia ʻo “A Bipartisan Empire.” No ke kākoʻo ʻana o ka Demokarata e hiki mai ana no ka "hoʻonui ʻana i ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka pūʻali koa" no ka pale ʻana i nā lako aila honua ma waho, e ʻike iā Michael Klare, "Ma mua o ka Age of Petroleum," The Nation (November 12, 2007).
5. Jeremy Brecher lāua ʻo Brendan Smith, “The Stab in the Back Trap,” Common Dreams (ʻApelila 26, 2007.
6. E nānā i ke alanui Paul, "'Ua hana mākou i kā mākou ʻāpana': ka laina Democratic Party ma ka US Commitment to Peace and Democracy Within and Beyond Iraq," ʻO ka hōʻike aupuni a me ka like ʻole Helu 14 (Malaki 27, 2007), loaʻa ma ka pūnaewele ma http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12432.
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