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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips In defense of William Ayers clipped by: jklugman clippers remarks: Wonderment said: But to call Ayers a "terrorist" and throw him in the Osama bin Laden pile is a reach for the moral high ground by the very people and political establishment that secretly carpet bombed Cambodia, murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians. ...Ayers is no martyr, and hes no role model. But he doesnt deserve to be the punching bag of the moral cretins who still celebrate lying wars of aggression and the pointless slaughter of untold thousands. Clip Source: bloggingheads.tv Ayers makes the claim that the use of violence, particularly with the aim of zero loss of life, was justified as a form of protest and pressure to end the Vietnam and Cambodian War. If you look at the crimes of the Johnson and Nixon administrations in their historical context (napalming civilians, Agent Orange, torture, starvation, mass murder, carpet bombings, persecution of dissidents in the US, including the murder of college students by the National Guard, pro-war police riots, disproportionately race-based conscription of 18-year-olds, etc. etc.), there is a case to be made that taking up arms against such a regime is justified. Now you may argue that the prospects of achieving success in ending the war through "revolutionary" violence were slim to none. I agree. Tags: william ayers, vietnam, cambodia, hypocrisy, war, civilian-killings zum Artikel... Anzeige Sums it up nicely.... clipped by: mooner-one Clip Source: www.lewrockwell.com Nothing New Truly, sometimes I think there is nothing new on the face of the earth. Heres a quotation cited by Mark Twain around the turn of the 19th century. Read it and see if you dont recognize it from todays political discourse: "Even if the war be wrong we are in it and must fight it out: we cannot retire from it without dishonor." That war was in the Philippines. Perhaps you remember it from your history books. We "liberated" the country from the clutch of Spanish colonialism, but then decided we would just replace the Spanish rather than grant the people independence. They resisted, and we fought a second war in the islands against Filipino patriots. Today, all of our politicians take the same position in regard to Iraq: Well, it may have been the wrong thing to do, but were there and we cant leave without a victory. I heard the same refrain about the Vietnam War. Whatever happened to the saying "Inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war"? zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de