Zinn to Kerry: Have the courage to walk away from Iraq!

[tedzbear]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0916-01.htm

Kerry needs to stop talking about how he will be stronger than Bush and how he will do more for our national security. He should stop accepting the traditional definitions of strength and security.

He should say that strength should not be measured in military terms, but in moral terms. Did the possession of almost 10,000 nuclear weapons prevent Sept. 11? Will a $400 billion military budget make us stronger or weaker? Will our military actions diminish terrorism or increase it?

Does not our strength lie in being an example to the world of a peace-loving nation, which uses its wealth not for bombs but for food and medicine, for our people and for others in need around the world? Should we not stop defining security in military terms, but talk instead of ''health security,'' ''job security,'' ``children's security''?

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God bless Howard Zinn. And thank god I read "A People's History of the United States."

[Vincardog]

1. Exactly John needs to offer a REAL Alternative to the S#it plan of PNAC

[buycitgo]

2. that's all fine and good, and I'm not criticizing Zinn

BUT, what is to be done

no matter WHAT, the world is screwed

if we leave now, it'll make Afghanistan look like the garden of Eden

if we hang on, it'll become like Vietnam, ca. 1974-5, or Algiers, ca mid 60s, and we'll leave, making it just as bad, if not worse, a hellhole than it is now

this was without a DOUBT, the worst decision any american president EVER had foisted upon him by a bunch of crazed, cowardly, ideological yahoos

[aneerkoinos]

3. Elefant

When the elefant goes into porcelain shop, you don't tell it: "you broke it, you fix it". No, you just hope it will go away as soon as possible and do no more damage.

Kerry or Bush, does not matter. Your country couldn't "fix" other countries even if it wanted, your nation is the clumsy one. Just go away, please.

[tedzbear]

5. Exzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzellent analogy!

:yourock:

[faithfulcitizen]

4. I could not disagree more...

Kerry should be hammering this issue, it IS what the country cares about right now.