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School Teacher

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2. It's All About the Resources: Must Grab them for the MIC, No Matter the Human Cost
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 09:15 AM
Apr 2013

Yes. The MIC will bamboozle soldiers and diplomats to fight hard for that fortune in minerals that are the treasure of Afghanistan.
As I told an American diplomat who was home visiting: "You said things are getting better in Afghanistan, you mean they are all dead so we can get at the minerals? Don't think we are too dumb to know what you are really doing over there. And get out, just get out!
If you were a moral person you would quit your job and just get out!" What a sickening moral disaster over there!

But Americans deep down know that what is going on over there is Evil. They distract themselves with sports, booze, drugs, shopping and overblown holidays. This distracts them from their poverty and they enjoy the banal offerings of popular culture.

Last night I saw crowds swarming into our now privatized soccer stadium to pay a rich man to see a game in the cold rain. If only I could get those crowds to an anti war demonstration! The crowds that show up at a Fun Run, if only they were marching for something that really mattered.

I had just come from a play entitled The Arabian Nights and at the end of this delightful set of folk tales, the characters laid down and the sound of jet bombers over Baghdad was heard overhead. I raised my fist in the air. Others in the audience did not seem to notice what that represented. Am I alone?

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