Let them eat gas

[David Morris]

Answering this post is  chore.  How ignorant should one assume the
recipient? Do U really want Israel's take on this?


Plus, pul-leezezzzzz, bombs away!
Stupid Talkin'
DM

On Monday, September 2, 2013, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> Are the right people in power in the countries we heroically "saved" with
> our special non WMD cruise missiles and clusterbombs? Are they headed for a
> brighter future? Did the bombs help? Are we, who are so violently uncivil
> ourselves, so deeply corrupted by militarism and predatory capitalism, so
> far from a truly humane democracy or an ecologically sane economy,
>  qualified to rule a planet ?
>
> If Israel is so concerned why don't they help take in the Syrian refugees?
> Same for France or the US? Can those who claim compassionate concern start
> there?
>
>  Is our soundbite culture qualified to understand, let alone intervene ?
>
>
>
>
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> On Sep 2, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Bekah wrote:
>
> > In my mind I've been remembering the Holocaust and all the people who
> are aghast that we didn't get involved in WWII earlier and how many lives
> we could have saved.  And now we see exactly why we didn't.  In the US
> there is,  and has been ever since the Mexican War,  a huge anti-war
> sentiment unless we have been personally attacked in some way (including
> capitalist fears of governments who nationalize companies and resources).
> >
> > If you,  a 6-foot 200 pound male age about 30,  see a 13-year old
> beating the crap out of a 5-year old what do you do?  To ignore it co-signs
> the 6th grader's actions - to get involved assures the 5-year old's safety.
>  There is no "fair" grouping to stop the fight.   And in the case at hand,
>  the 5-year old is likely to jump on us and start scratching and kicking -
> (the new regime would be worse).
> >
> > I have no idea if I'm for or against action in Syria -  I wish we had a
> more forceful UN or something but I'm not sure that wouldn't be more of the
> same from a different source.  The other nations have spoken anyway -
> without a formal "vote."
> >
> > Bek
> > (sigh)
> >
> > On Sep 2, 2013, at 4:53 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe the Syrian conflict is an imperial plot hatched in the bloody war
> >> room, the gas leaked from the oil satellites, into the rooms where
> children
> >> slept fitfully. Maybe not.
> >>
> >> Maybe Washington wants the revolution in Syria to succeed. Maybe not.
> >>
> >> Maybe the insidious creeping of neo-liberal capitalism, more deadly than
> >> gas, and clearly in use by all sides is the WMD. Maybe not.
> >>
> >> Maybe Obama hit the replay on the tube, so we Thanatoids are watching
> >> a re-run  of the Bush-era lies that led to the war on Iraq. Maybe not.
> >>
> >> Maybe Syria's dictatorial President Bashar al-Assad and the 40-year
> >> rule of his family is nothing but another brick in the old cold war.
> >> Maybe not.
> >>
> >> Maybe its time for an Arab Winter. Maybe not.
> >>
> >> Gas tyranny, corruption, occupation, poverty.
> >>
> >> Let economic development, social justice, real representation and
> >> democracy Spring.
> >>
> >> Let them eat gas.
> >> Let them eat gas.
> >>
> >> Oil and blood.
> >>
> >> Noam Chomsky said.
> >>
> >> Spread the revolution.
> >>
> >> Spread the revolution.
> >>
> >> Let them
> >> Let them
> >>
> >> Oil and Blood.
> >>
> >> Eat Gas.
> >>
> >> Fela Anikulapo Kuti With Africa 70 - No Agreement [Full Album][HQ]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4aP0hsen0>
> >
>
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