It's Time To March On The Pentagon

[Hissyspit]

http://www.alternet.org/stories/49269/

It's Time to March on the Pentagon

By Sunsara Taylor, CounterPunch. Posted March 17, 2007.

After the Democrats' recent failure to get tough with George Bush on his saber rattling toward Iran, it's time to stop waiting for a political savior.

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You could close your eyes and pretend it isn't happening. Pretend that the new Democratic Congress -- after four years of torture, mass murder and war crimes against the people of Iraq -- didn't just promise the War-Criminal-In-Chief that they would do nothing to stop a new and even more dangerous war against Iran.

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Or you could open your eyes and confront the nightmares engulfing millions of people in the Middle East and endangering people around the world that only people living in this country can bring to a halt. You can get on a bus, hop on a train, purchase an airline ticket, or pile into a van and get your butt to Washington DC on March 17t to march across the bridge and encircle the Pentagon, on March 17th before the eyes of the world!

Forty years ago, a generation who refused to accept an unjust and murderous war on Vietnam descended on the Pentagon. They looked out at the villages being razed, the children burning alive by napalm, and the blood that would be on their hands if they didn't bring this to a halt and they declared it was time to go "from protest to resistance."

Now, at a time when the Bush regime, with the silence and complicity of the Democrats, are escalating their assault on Iraq and aggressively preparing a new war against Iran, it is wrong not to be at the Pentagon.

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[JohnnyLib2]

1. Yellow light, yellow light from experience in the 60s and 70s....

the Pentagon's orders come from the top, from the administration. If anti-war passions turn against the military again, well, look at the history of those years.

(Yes, I for one have mellowed with age. )

[rzemanfl]

2. I recommend highly that you read "House of War" by James

Carroll. It certainly raises questions as to who really runs the show. I am almost finished with it and am convinced that the Department of Defense needs to be dismantled and the country needs to take a long hard look at whether the office of President of the United States should continue to be.

[bryant69]

3. Hmmmm - and what would be put in the place of the department of defense

or are we supposed to pretend that we have nothing to fear?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[rzemanfl]

4. Dismantled, not destroyed. One basic premise of the book is

that the Pentagon drove the Cold War and had to find something to replace it when that "War" ended. The book is brilliant, I'm not. Read it and come to your own conclusions.

[JohnnyLib2]

5. OK, just ordered on Amazon.

Thanks. My concern this week is with protests-turned ugly, mob rule and so forth. Saw an awful lot of misplaced anger way back when.