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[TPMCafe] The Iraq Conflict Launched in 2003: An Ill-Advised War of Choice ...: Two more tangents will illustrate my point: The American war for independence was a war of choice, but does anyone now think the signers of the Declaration should have apologized to George III instead, or even accepted the Carlisle commission's offer, in the wake of Saratoga a year later, of a return to the ante-bellum status quo? On the other hand, for a southern plantation owner in 1861, it was a necessity to fight the Civil War in order to save the long term future of his way of life.

[Civil War Rifles] The War is not Justified, But Necessary! | Civil War Rifles: The Iraq equation is like any regular conference or seminar, where all participants may not necessarily agree, but the meeting gives all the opportunity to serve their varying interest in a civilized forum. As a result, those who could play this workable arrangements with the West, has always been the moderates whose views in their systems are either sidelined or driven so far to the background and out of fear of severe consequence can not share their opinions in the open.

[Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates] Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates » Blog Archive ...: A student of world history would know that, for all the acknowledged evils of Western colonialism, these evils pale in comparison to the nearly 14 centuries of Islamic colonialism that began in Arabia under the leadership of Mohammed. The student of history would know that Islamic forces eradicated all Jewish and Christian presence from Arabia after Mohammed’s death, and then succeeded in conquering all of North Africa, most of the Middle East, much of Asia Minor, and significant portions of Europe and India - eventually creating an empire larger than Rome’s was at its peak.

[Mathaba.Net - Iraq] Obama`s Outreach to Muslims - Empty Rhetoric, Same Old Policies: Also, Iraq and Afghanistan remain occupied, the former with unchanged troop levels for the duration if necessary and thousands more for the latter under a new commander, general Stanley McChrystal, known for his brutality as leader of the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special (death squad) Operations (JSO). No exiting timelines are in sight for either country.

[Let's Try Democracy] Finally a Filibuster of War Funding Threatened | Let's Try Democracy: Fifty-one Democrats did vote No on this bill before the IMF and photo ban measures were added, but there are always Democrats who will vote against war as long as they know the bill is going to pass. The question now is whether we can find Democrats who will vote against this bill and defeat it.

[PDA National News] 100+ Peace Groups Send Letter to CPC - Progressive Democrats of ...: We urge Congress to restructure the package to focus funding on the expanded diplomacy, development assistance, and international cooperation that are key to ending these conflicts and promoting a stable peace in the wider region. To defeat the Taliban and stabilize the country, the U.S. must enable the Afghan people to develop public services and an effective justice system essential to create political stability and support for the government;

[Select Your Vote] Q & A with Richard Haass, author of "War of Necessity; War of ...: Much different than the foreign policy of 43 which was much more what could be described as a radical, idealist, Wilsonian tranformationalist, choose your word, but much more out of the school of thought that the principle business of American foreign policy is to shape the domestic nature of others, either for humanitarian, moral reasons, principled reasons, or for practical reasons, based on the so-called democratic peace theory, that if we could somehow make them into mature democracies they would not only treat their own people better but would treat their neighbors better. That’s all well and good.

[Dollars & Sense blog] Dollars & Sense blog: Michael Perelman's Iraq Peace Plan | Dollars ...: Republicans should be delighted to be able to claim that Bush's policy is vindicated. Democrats could crow about how they achieved peace.

[The Caucus] Congress Considers War Financing Bills - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: In the Senate, lawmakers are to vote Monday evening on whether to cut off debate on a measure that gives the Food and Drug Administration new authority to regulate tobacco products. The bill itself has broad support, but some senators are unhappy they might not get to offer their particular amendments if the debate is cut short, so Senate officials remained uncertain of the outcome.

[articles blog] American Daily Review - articles blog - The Threat at Home: To answer your question as to how I arrived at the views I now hold, during the early 1970s I was working with the Black Panther Party, whose leaders were the heroes of all progressives and were assumed by progressives to be the victims of American oppression and police brutality. As I soon discovered, the Panthers were, in fact, criminals and murderers and not the victims the left claimed them to be.

[Economist Blog] Michael Perelman's Peace Plan For Iraq | Economist Blog: “We and the Iraqis decided it wasn’t in the city,” says a US military official. The base on the southern outskirts of Baghdad’s Rasheed district is an example of the fluidity of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) agreed to late last year, which orders all US combat forces out of Iraqi cities, towns, and villages by June 30.”

[Rebelliousvanilla's Blog] Blow Back And Foreign Policy « Rebelliousvanilla's Blog: The second world war turned the US from a country with limited intervention in other countries into a super power who used the military and intelligence services in order to help certain special interests at the expense of not only the countries in which they influenced certain events, but at the expense of the American citizens. The latter were misguided into thinking that tactics like pre-emptive war, a tactic used by Hitler can be just and in order to reason it’s use, whenever the US had to go to war, they portrayed the certain country or it’s ruler as a murderer or as a threat not only to the US, but to the world.

[Romanticpoet's Weblog] Far Left Plans Education Fund Symposium and CCDS Sixth National ...: The DSA board in 2006/2007 included Gerald Horne (CPUSA), Carl Davidson (CCDS, ex SDS, ex Communist Party Marxist-Leninist), Manning Marable (DSA, CCDS), Charlene Mitchell (CCDS, ex CPUSA) Angela Davis (CCDS, ex CPUSA), Noam Chomsky (DSA, CCDS), Barbara Ehrenreich (DSA), Bill Fletcher (DSA, Freedom Road Socialist Organisation), Paul Buhle (DSA, ex SDS), Mike Klonsky (ex SDS, ex Communist Party Marxist-Leninist) Bert Garskof (ex SDS), David Graeber (ex SDS), Tom Hayden (ex SDS), Mike James (ex SDS), Bruce Rubenstein (ex Weatherman), Bernardine Dohrn (ex SDS, ex WUO) Mark Rudd (ex SDS, ex WUO) and Jeff Jones (ex SDS, ex WUO).

[Opinio Juris] Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » Obama's Historic “Children of ...: When Wilson finished those speeches (Peace Without Victory, Fourteen Points, Four Principles, etc.) everyone immediately knew they were historic and openly said so. His populist appeal generated enthusiasm for a war-weary world to look .

[TheMillerCircle.org] TheMillerCircle.org » Blog Archive » Help is on the way: But I don’t think there is anything that GW Bush or Dick Cheney could say that would sway the opinions of Millennials on the major issues that they now see in a very different light than that prosyletized by the current iteration of the Republican Party. It seems to me that the most likely source of rebellion against the current views of the majority of Millennials would be if Obama and the Democrats didn’t step up to the plate and begin to deliver in a serious way on the promises that they gave out to these young people that brought them onto the Obama band wagon beginning last year.

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