Reply #57: I know. [View All]

[KitSileya]

I can imagine its frustrating to watch from outside - but believe me, it ain't fun here on the inside.

Which is why I conceded that mine was the opinion of an armchair quarterback, and should be treated as such. My frustration at my own impotence in this matter is showing, I know, and it is unfair to condemn the Ameerican people wholesale just yet.


However, you might also notice that I stated my opinions with some qualifications - the theft of another election, or an invasion of Iraq, and that especially in the latter case it falls upon the American people to stop the Bush junta - with torches and pitchforks........or p90s, if necessary. And while that suggestion might get my post deleted, or myself listed by agent Mike, I am completely serious. The US has 12 year mandatory education, where most learn to read and write, you have unprecedented phone and internet access, nominal freedom to congregate, laws that nominally protect you, in short, you have the means with which to plan a revolution. And what is more important, the US is a democracy - even with the stolen elections you have the knowledge of what democracy is, and there is a duty to preserve it.

Mexicans, Ukrainians, Kenyans, and many others have fought that battle with much worse odds - they didn't all win, but at least they tried. If the Bush** admin invades Iran, will Americans be willing to leave their place of work and participate in a general strike? Will they descend upon Washington D.C. en masse, and stay there until Congress agrees to their demands? Will they risk their lives to stop their sworn President - he may not have been elected, but he is sworn in - from killing thousands of innocents? Or will they accede that if so happens, like the Afghani being killed because of the Taliban, and the Iraqi killed because they had Saddam Hussein as president, the Iranians would be within their full rights to bomb American cities because Bush is their president, and he has shown himself to be every bit the terrorist he accused Hussein to be?

If the US invades Iran, it is quite clear that the current trend of diplomacy and gentle international pressure is useless, and it will be necessary to contain USA as the threat it has become, on par with North Korea, Zimbabwe et.al. And that is something for which I can fight, and pressure my own government, small tho' we may be in international circles.