Reply #120: clarification

[Two Americas]

If there is a "war" over there, then there is one here as well. The same things are happening, the same players are involved, and the impact and effect on the people is the same. The only difference is that the Iraqis are resisting a little more than we are. Not that it would take much to do that.

Wars feature two opposing military organizations sponsored by states with both populations and governments fully engaged in a life and death struggle for national survival. The administration wants us to imagine, or believe that this is the case in Iraq - "we are at war." But who is the enemy? No less an immigrant here than a resister there, no less a brown person here then a brown person there. What are the tactics used against the supposed enemy? The same here as there - break down doors, round people up, ignore all standards of law and decency, terrorize and detain people. What is the purpose of this? In both cases, corporate interests are served and any and all resistance by the everyday people is brutally crushed.