Saturday, I joined a crowd of thousands massing at the
Powell-Market cable car intersection where Answer in coalition with Code Pink,
and many other groups called for an emergency protest of #45’s latest
folly. Regardless of what the royal
adviser Pompeo
might think, you don’t tangle—ever—with folks who are clever, and armed to the
teeth. Not unless you want a full scale war. Apparently, judging from the
turnout in 90 American cities, even Americans, not exactly famous for their
pacifism, don’t want war anymore, although as usual the lame-stream media says
to the contrary as it beats the tired old drums for war.
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| Saturday's S.F. demonstration. credit: Ruthie Sackheim |
Zaiqi Ye, a stringer working for Xinhua News, the official
press agency of the People’s Republic of China, interviewed me and a few of my cohort. Because the loudspeakers
were turned up full tilt, I could barely think
and speak only briefly. This is what I said: "I am here for peace, and I
have worked for peace all my life (a very long life by now with lots of
wrinkles in it).
"This decision by #45 was undertaken for a number of reasons,
but the most prominent two seem
self evident: Qassem Suleimani was a very effective adversary against ISIS and
Daesh, both of them not-so-secret U.S. proxy armies. If you need to make huge
profits off your main industry, munitions, you need perpetual wars. You need
plenty of fake adversaries to de-stabilize a region as large and densely
populated as the Middle East, and you need plenty of proxy mercenaries if you
wish to put some muscle into your portfolio.
And two, Americans have an iconic saying: “You Don’t Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream” by
which they mean that, once an incumbent
makes war, declared or undeclared, it guarantees election results."
I could have referred to #45’s racist hatred of his black
predecessor as another motivating factor, but I tend to be a person of few
words, and I let it go at apocalypse.
Meantime, massive resignations
have been reported under Pompeo’s watch and lawmakers
and experts tell #45 he can’t declare war by tweet. But the Persians are
not known for their bashfulness. They iconized Suleimani.
Assassinating him might be the equivalent of taking out one of our own foremost
killers, McChrystal, say, or Petraeus. We can expect retaliation by ruse and by
stealth, cyberattacks that shred our economy, ground our air lines, paralyze
our electric grid, bring our banking to a standstill. There will be no
exceptionalism this time to save us.
As with all wars, declared or undeclared, the people are the
ones who pay.
Please sign Win Without
War petition at
Signing another can’t hurt. Please sign Move On’s petition
at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/no-war-with-iran-11?akid=254064.25649514.VfN1x6&rd=1&source=mo&t=7
And Demand Progress and Jewish Voice for Peace at
And Daily Kos at
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| Be there January 25! |
And please call Congress at 202 224-3121 and ask your Rep
and Senators to
•Use the War Powers Act to block #45 attacks on Iran
•Cut the Pentagon off at the purse strings to end any
funding for such attacks.
Share this message on twitter and on facebook.
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