MB Civic

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406C.shtml

Normon Solomon .. you know, one of those “hate America first” people … those people that care about not unnecessarily traumatizing, torturing, maiming and killing people in other countries .. gets to the root of our disfunction.

You see, no matter what happens in Iraq, it’s mostly about us – spelled US; the United States. We’re encouraged to perceive that Iraq is most important, at least implicitly, because of what it means for the USA: its image in other countries, the deaths and wounds of its soldiers, the political strength of the president and, this fall, the likely effects on the midterm Congressional elections…

…If the Iraq war is primarily framed as a problem because of what it’s doing to Americans, the “solutions” could make the war seem like less of a quagmire even while more Iraqi people pay with their lives. Media arguments over whether Iraq is a quagmire turn the spotlight away from the human calamities that Iraqis are experiencing on a daily basis, while American taxpayers continue to subsidize Uncle Sam’s deadly machinations.

Wait … does that mean I have to pay more for my big screen tv?
-MAB