Reply #110: Wrong on Resistance & Korea [View All]

[durutti]

1. The organizers presented an unbelievable amount of speakers from special interest internet sites. Over half of the speeches have ended with "Go to our website." I was particularly fond of all of the free mumia people.

I've been to a few ANSWER rallies, and I think they have too many speakers, period. I'm pretty critical of ANSWER generally; but going to an ANSWER rally is better than not going to any rally, IMHO.

2. The organizers have presented foreign born speakers to account for around half of the overall talking. So in between talking about the 3 main goals of the rally, we hear about American atrocity in the Philipines, South Korea, North Korea, the Middle-east, South America, Central America, Nexico, Africa.... You name it, they found someone from one of those countries.

Good. This serves to raise awareness. They might have overdone it a bit, but there is a place for such things at Iraq-focused events.

And a few of the speakers openly talked about working with groups who are involved with the Iraqi Resistance (That group shooting at our soldiers.)

Arrrgh! O.K., now you're just making me angry...

I pity the American soldiers who have to go to Iraq. I think that the most we can do to support the troops is to demand that they're brought home.

However, I don't support the occupation of Iraq. U.S. soldiers are enforcing that occupation. The Iraqi people have a right to violently resist occupation. I'm sorry, but I'm not rooting for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. I wish that no one had to die. But U.S. troops in Iraq are Redcoats. They're legitimate targets.

I was also surprised to find that the South Koreans have forgotten the North Koreans INVADED THEM, not us.

Ah, the textbook propaganda version of history...

The Korean War was almost exactly like Vietnam. It was just as unjustified. We just don't think of it that way because we didn't lose it (which really tells us something about the American ideology, I think).

There was one Korea. There was no North and South until the nation was carved up by the Americans, who didn't want the Soviets to take all of the country. As soon as the Japanese were defeated, the South Koreans established a democratically elected People's Republic of Korea. Shortly thereafter, U.S. troops poured into the South and smashed the newly formed government.

The South Koreans overwhelmingly wanted to be part of the North. The North's attempt at reunification was a just war against U.S. imperialism.