Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 08/03/2005 - 21:43.
So the only two categories are "perpetrators" or "detached, universal minds, philosophising about right and wrong"? I consider myself neither, thank you. I acknowledge that as an American Jew my silence would make me complicit—which is why I choose not to be silent. But even complicit is not the same thing as a "perpetrator." The only thing I have ever "perpetrated" vis-a-vis American or Israeli bellicosity is opposition to it. Even if that opposition has been insufficient, that means I remain to a degree complicit—not a "pepetrator." And the notion that we are morally obliged to be neutral about suicide bombings or the Islamist embrace of classical European anti-Semitism is self-defeating idiocy. Does this logic also extend to 9-11 and the London bombings? This is the thinking, ironically, of a mind obsessed with moral purity rather than political realism.
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
WW4 Report pamphlets
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural - a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers and the self-serving local leaders who cater to them.
opensource technology and the people of Sundays Energy
Dualistic bullshit
So the only two categories are "perpetrators" or "detached, universal minds, philosophising about right and wrong"? I consider myself neither, thank you. I acknowledge that as an American Jew my silence would make me complicit—which is why I choose not to be silent. But even complicit is not the same thing as a "perpetrator." The only thing I have ever "perpetrated" vis-a-vis American or Israeli bellicosity is opposition to it. Even if that opposition has been insufficient, that means I remain to a degree complicit—not a "pepetrator." And the notion that we are morally obliged to be neutral about suicide bombings or the Islamist embrace of classical European anti-Semitism is self-defeating idiocy. Does this logic also extend to 9-11 and the London bombings? This is the thinking, ironically, of a mind obsessed with moral purity rather than political realism.