Re: the Iraqi resistance at work
On Nov 20, 2006, at 1:11 PM, ravi wrote:
While I have nothing to say about your (DH) internal mental states, I think Yoshie is spot on about responsibility and the collective us avoiding, ignoring, denying or downplaying it.
I opposed the invasion of Iraq. I marched against it, wrote against
it, talked against it. The same can be said for almost everyone on
this list. How the fuck am I responsible for it? By continuing to
live in the USA? It’s the worst sort of activistism that holds that
if only we’d had one more demo, one more petition, one more sign, one
more slogan the war could have been stopped. (Someone actually didn’t
come to our wedding because he had to give an antiwar speech. Well he
missed a nice lunch and the war happened anyway.) Americans who
supported the war deserve some blame, but I’m not taking any, and you
shouldn’t either, unless it makes you feel more important.
Doug