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Today's Stories June 29, 2010 Jules Boykoff The World Cup and the Politics of Immigration June 28, 2010 Eamonn McCann The Bloody Sunday Report: How the Higher-Ups Got Off the Hook Frank Menetrez Elena Kagan's Harvard David Ker Thomson Toronto: Still Free, Barely Holding On Mark Weisbrot Can't Get No Stimulation Bill Quigley Honduras, After Democracy Jonathan Cook Plan Lieberman: Blueprint for a Purely Jewish State Alan Farago Environmental Catastrophe Fatigue Damien Millet / Eric Toussaint Vain and Void in Toronto Harry Browne World Cup: For Love and Money Manuel Garcia, Jr. June 29, 2010 The Moral Burden of War Holding America's Soldiers Accountable By JOHN GRANT The US Army i s holding Specialist Bradley Manning incommunicado in Kuwait, under charges of leaking to Wiki Leaks video of Apache helicopter pilots gunning down two Reuters cameramen and a number of Iraqis in a Baghdad neighborhood . The video is devastating in what i t reveals about cold-bloo ded hi-technology warfare in a place like Baghdad. See it at: http://www.collateralmurder.com/ WikiLeaks has arranged for three pro-bono lawyers to assist Manning in his case. However, Manning must request for th em to see him. Since the Army will not inform Manni ng of their existence, he cannot ask for them to see him. Joseph Heller would love it, a perfect Catch 22. For me, Manning is an American hero, part of a strong traditi on of soldiers who conclude in their conscience that they cannot morally r emain silent on the nature of the war they have been sent to fight. One Iraq vet told me he lost confidence in the war he was fighting once he realized, in his attitudes and actions against the Iraqi people, he was becoming the tyrant he thought he was sent there to fight. As there is a tradition of antiwar soldiers, there is also a tradition that seeks to damn people like Manning and keep their views far from the American consciousness. In recent memory, this tradition starts with the image of antiwar protestors spitting on returning soldiers from Vietnam, a right wing myth that arose during the Gulf War as part of the effort to “get beyond the Vietnam Syndrome.” That’s the conclusion of Jerry Lembcke in The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam. Lembcke looked and could find no evidence at al l of spitting. Instead, he says, the image was part of a concerted effort to demonize the antiwar movement and, espe cially, to distract national attention away from the many instances of returning soldiers and veterans who sympathized with the antiwar movement during the Vietnam War. No one was actually spitting on our soldiers. Instead, pro war elements allowed their metaphoric imaginations to express their feelings about the antiwar movement with the spitting image. So it is not surprising someone like Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal dredged up the spitting image in his recent fraudulent posing as a Vietnam veteran. Now Available from CounterPunch Books! Wasting Libby: the True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die (and Got Away With It) By Andrea Peacock Introduction by Jeff Bridges home / subscribe / donate / books / t-shirts / search / links / feedback / events / faq CounterPun ch Print Edition Exclusive! Obama's Green Light to BP Jeffrey St Clair traces the corrupti on acros s three presidencies that led to disaster in the Gulf. It w as bad under Clinton; worse under Bush. But it was Obama and his Interio r Secretary Ken Salazar who set the stage for catastrophe. What’ s the best way to create jobs? Eugene Coyle makes the case for the 4-day work w eek. Have the CIA and MI 6 destroyed classical music in the western wo rld? Britain’s best known composer, Howard Blake, says Yes. Get your new edition today by subscribing online or calling 1-800-840-3683 Contributions to CounterPunch are tax-deductible. Click here to make a donation . If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now! CounterPunch books and t-shirts make great presents. Order CounterPun ch By Email For Only $35 a Year !
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June 29, 2010
The Moral Burden of War
Holding America's Soldiers Accountable
By JOHN GRANT
The US Army is holding Specialist Bradley Manning incommunicado in
Kuwait, under charges of leaking to WikiLeaks video of Apache helicopterpilots gunning down two Reuters cameramen and a number of Iraqis in aBaghdad neighborhood. The video is devastating in what i t reveals aboutcold-blooded hi-technology warfare in a place like Baghdad. See it at:http://www.collateralmurder.com/
WikiLeaks has arranged for three pro-bono lawyers to assist Manning in hiscase. However, Manning must request for them to see him. Since the Armywill not inform Manning of their existence, he cannot ask for them to seehim. Joseph Heller would love it, a perfect Catch 22.
For me, Manning is an American hero, part of a strong tradition of soldierswho conclude in their conscience that they cannot morally remain silent onthe nature of the war they have been sent to fight. One Iraq vet told me helost confidence in the war he was fighting once he realized, in his attitudes
and actions against the Iraqi people, he was becoming the tyrant he thoughthe was sent there to fight.
As there is a tradition of antiwar soldiers, there is also a tradition that seeksto damn people like Manning and keep their views far from the Americanconsciousness.
In recent memory, this tradition starts with the image of antiwar protestorsspitting on returning soldiers from Vietnam, a right wing myth that aroseduring the Gulf War as part of the effort to “get beyond the VietnamSyndrome.” That’s the conclusion of Jerry Lembcke in The Spitting Image:
Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam.
Lembcke looked and could find no evidence at al l of spitting. Instead, hesays, the image was part of a concerted effort to demonize the antiwarmovement and, especially, to distract national attention away from the manyinstances of returning soldiers and veterans who sympathized with theantiwar movement during the Vietnam War.
No one was actually spitting on our soldiers. Instead, pro war elementsallowed their metaphoric imaginations to express their feelings about theantiwar movement with the spitting image. So it is not surprising someonelike Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal dredged up thespitting image in his recent fraudulent posing as a Vietnam veteran.
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Look up the documentary Sir! No Sir! to understand the fear the antiwarsoldiers’ movement sent into the hearts of our leaders as the Vietnam Warderailed. The fact this significant movement is little known shows howeffective things like the spitting myth have been.
Ever since the rise of the spitting image, and especially beginning with theIraq War in 2003, the antiwar movement in America has walked on eggshellswhen it came to distinguishing the war i t opposed from the soldiers sent tofight it.
“Support the troops, not the war” became the mantra. Sometimes the word “troops” is exchanged for “warrior,” a term that calls up images of menhacking away at each other with swords and pikes.
In the film 300, the Spartans live a code of "Come back with your shield oron it." When wars begin to fail , this kind of classic Warrior Myth feeds intothe first cousin of the Spitting Myth, the Stab In The Back Myth, whichsuggests that those questioning wars are, somehow, the reason for theirfailures.
The Stab In The Back Myth tends to appear as wars fall in popularity andbegin to make no sense to those at home who pay for them. We are l iving inone of those times. Senator John McCain now likes to say, at times like this,
“we cannot sound an uncertain trumpet.” You can see it forming: Thosewhose trumpet is not certain in the months and years to come will be blamedfor the disaster that is our policy in Afghanistan.
Who carries the war’s mo ral burden?
Moving from the Mythic to the Real, is it a good time to ask whether theantiwar movement should stop using the slogan: “Support the troops, notthe war”? More to the point, if our current wars amount to misguided policyhelping to bankrupt the country in economic hard times, at what point doesa share of the moral burden of this fall on the volunteer soldiers doing thefighting?
In Vietnam, there was a draft and much higher rates of casualties than inIraq and Afghanistan. One thing the military and militarists learned fromVietnam is that US citizens don’t like the idea of their sons and daughtersbeing killed in a war that doesn’t make sense.
At the end of the Vietnam War, as troops were pulled out, the use of mechanized killing methods were expanded, an equation that now rules ourmilitary in war. In fact, this phenomenon is so advanced that the Obamaadministration relies even more than its predecessor on a burgeoning dronewar in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
It is remotely directed, lethal warfare in which body bags of American boysand girls are less of a burden for war makers. The only negative is the furythe policy creates among Afghans and Pakistanis, including people like theTimes Square bomber.
A drone “pilot” sits in an air conditioned cubicle somewhere in New Mexicowith a Diet Pepsi on the console as he kills people 12,000 miles away seenonly on a video screen that looks virtually identical to the video games thesoldier was weaned on as a kid in the mall.
This individual is not a “warrior.”
Of course, we still have men, and maybe women, in real killing professions.The cashiered General Stanley McChrystal was famous for managinghunter/killer teams with real blood on their hands. These individuals arehighly trained and as tough and ruthless as one could ask. They operate intotal secrecy.
There are also standard infantry units that still do humping and patrolling.Lately, their lives are being put in greater danger due to new rules of engagement that often preclude air support, which tends to kill lots of civilians. And, finally, under the Petraeus counterinsurgency doctrine, thereare many soldiers in support and development roles. All these soldiersinitially volunteered to do what they are doing.
I’m a veteran of the Vietnam War. I was a 19-year-old volunteer and my jobwas as a radio direction finder in the Central Highlands tasked to locateVietnamese radio operators so they and their comrades could be killed byF14s, 175mm howitzers or infantry units. Forty years on and lots of readingand thinking later, I see those I targeted as soldiers fighting for theliberation of their country. I was the bad guy.
Young men and women today in Iraq and Afghanistan and veterans backhome can no doubt also see their war shifting in meaning before their eyes.
So should the antiwar movement continue to let our soldiers off the hook socompletely? Or should we encourage greater moral engagement? Do thewars really make sense to our soldiers, or are they simply trapped andfighting to protect themselves and their comrades? Are they there justbecause they needed a job?
I came home from Vietnam with a whopping case of survival guil t and ahealthy dose of mistrust for my government. I was not in combat and was
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lucky not to be wounded or burdened with traumatic stress. I can’t say thatfor many of my combat veteran fr iends.
What we ow e our soldiers
These days we hear a lot about how the military is concerned about PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among its troops. But too often themilitary’s concern is to get a soldier back up to fighting shape – to essentiallyget him or her back on the line. Certain critical matters involved in traumaare avoided.
From the vantage point of the anti-war movement, PTSD counseling is seenvery differently. The goal is for soldiers to fully understand their actions andthe traumatic issues they are dealing with – no matter where that mightlead in relation to the war i tself. In other words, self-understanding and agreater wisdom are the goals, not re-adjusting to the military’s mission.
If certain aspects of the war itself are causing the trauma, then that shouldbe faced head on. The fact the war is troubling for a soldier is often becausethe war is morally troubling as an historic reality.
The antiwar movement owes our soldiers respect for their suffering and theirsacrifices. We need to make sure they get the care they need once they arehome. But the antiwar movement should no longer give our troops a moralpass, especially when it comes to the continued use of al Qaeda and 9/11 asa “Remember the Alamo!” battle cry to explain our mil itary presence inplaces like Afghanistan.
Our reasons for being in Afghanistan and Iraq make less and less sense andthe skyrocketing costs of these military occupations are preventing us from
undertaking a long list of overdue domestic needs. Al Qaeda has moved onfrom Afghanistan, and it has been effectively argued that tough regionaldiplomacy can check their return.
It is nothing short of absurd when we are told Americans are needed toteach Afghans, one of the world’s most warlike people, how to fight. AsThomas Friedman points out, nothing in Afghanistan “resonates” anywhere.We are there now to save face from a host of bad decisions that got usbogged down there.
We need less secrecy and more accountability in our military ranks, and weneed to encourage more of our young soldiers to share this view. Right now,all thinking, caring Americans need to fight for soldiers like Bradley Manning,an American hero hidden away in a Kuwait jail.
Manning’s action follows precisely the arc Joseph Campbell describes in hisfamous book Hero With a Thousand Faces of the young warrior who leaveshome to descend into Hell, where he learns something and then returns to
impart that knowledge to his people.
The military understands this very well, which is why it has to be so harshwith someone like Manning. It is why our leaders so feared the antiwarsoldiers movement back in the days of the Vietnam War.
America is not its national security state. First and foremost, our soldiersneed to protect themselves and their comrades, but they also need tounderstand they serve more than just our generals.
JOHN GRANT is a founding member of the new independent, collectively-owned, journalist-run online newspaper ThisCantBeHappening.net. His work,and that of colleagues Dave Lindorff, Linn Washington, and Charles Young,can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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James BovardBlind Trust: HowDemocracy BreedsPolitical Idiocy
Mike WhitneyEurope is Headingfor aMini-Depression
Rannie AmiriThe Real MotiveBehind the GazaFlotilla Attack
Anthony DiMaggioRogue StatePolitics:International Lawand Israel's Raid onthe Gaza Flotilla
Neve GordonIsrael's Two Spaces
John GrantIn the IsraeliMinefield
Jeffrey St. ClairShaky Foundations:Toxic Sources,Tainted Money
Linn Washington,Jr. Cuban Five: theFederalGovernment PaidJournalists to
Sabotage Trial
Peter LeeThe CheonanIncident
Ahmad Shokr
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Clamping theLifeline: Egypt'sGaza Blockade
Soha Al-Jurf The Semantics of Terrorism
Tolu OlorundaPrisons and theMyth of Color-blindness: a
Conversation withMichelle Alexander
Sheldon RichmanServing theEmpire, Killing forLies
Diana ButtuThe Lessons of Gaza
Saul LandauFouling the HumanNest
P. SainathAn Indian Saga:
"Caste isEverything"
Ramzy BaroudFacebook andMuslim Outrage
ChristopherBrauchliNewt Speak:Gingrich and theN-Word
Ron JacobsKorea Staredown
Laura FlandersBeing Poor in a
Sinking America
Eric WalbergNuclear Juggling
Russell MokhiberCoal Intimidation
Martha RosenbergMeeting the DrugIndustry
Missy BeattieThe Air is Humming
Alvaro HuertaToxic Twins:Arizona Meet BP
Harry BrowneWorld Cup: theSquads areSelected
Charles R. LarsonDarwinianShenanigans?
David YearsleyBach and the OilSpill
Poets' BasementThree Poems bySatnrose
Website of theWeekendAmb. Peck: "WeCall That Piracy"
June 3, 2010
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James AbourezkDershowitz to theRescue?
Nadia HijabIsrael's Dilemma
Jonathan CookA Cornered Israel isBaring Its Teeth
Daniel C. Maguire
Chutzpah Galore
Gareth PorterRevolt of the DroneOperators
Samuel Leff Torturous Guilt?
Patrick CockburnBaghdad's DudBomb Detectors
Dennis Bernstein /Jesse StraussUN Human RightsRapporteur BlastsIsrael: an Interviewwith Richard Falk
Nikolas Kozloff Whither theMangroves?
Jayne Lyn StahlMiranda Who?
Website of the DayGulf Tribunal
June 2, 2010
Patrick CockburnNotch Up AnotherDisaster for Israel's
Well-OiledPropagandaMachine
Neve GordonPiracy on theBlood-Red Sea
Jonathan CookIsraeli MP's Night of Terror on Aid Ship
Kathy Kelly /Josh BrollierAid Poor and WarWeary in Pakistan
Dean Baker
TARP and theDeficit Hawks
Walden BelloThe Battle forThailand
Fran ShorGimme Shelter:Obama, Oil andWar
Paul Fitzgerald /Elizabeth GouldThe Battle forKandahar andPerceptions of American Victory
Dave Lindorff Worse Than NorthKorea
Yvonne RidleyFrom Klinghoffer to
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the Gaza Flotilla
Charles M. YoungLone StarCheeseheads vs.the Lesser of TwoMedievals
Shamus CookeThe Widening RiftBetween Teachersand Democrats
Website of the DayElvis and Nixon:the Official WhiteHouse Memo
June 1, 2010
Paul Craig RobertsAmerica'sComplicity in Evil
Patrick CockburnTurkey CondemnsIsrael
Vijay PrashadThe Madmen of Our
Times
Anthony DiMaggioWar Takes NoHoliday
Ray McGovernObama's Timidityand Deaths at Sea
Greg MosesOf Booms andSkimmers
Marjorie CohnMurdering HumanRights Workers
Kathleen BarryPirates of theMediterranean
Joseph NevinsMemorial Day: aTime toCommemorateMother Nature
Belén Fernández"Worse ThanPirates"
Website of the DayFinkelstein: "Israelis a Real LunaticState"
May 31, 2010
Jonathan CookIsrael's Attack onUs All
Uri AvneryRahm and Israel
Nikolas Kozloff Carville, Colombiaand BP
Dave Lindorff The Glorification of War
Linh DinhTop Killing: MakeWay for theContractors
Michael NeumannThe WASP
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Penchant forZionism
John WeisheitNukes in CanyonCountry?
Stephen LendmanSlaughter at Sea:Israel Attacks theGaza Flotilla
Ralph NaderWhat's Pelosi AfraidOf?
Tom TurnipseedImmigrants R Us
Bouthaina ShaabanAs Dangerous as ItGets
Website of the DayMessing withMiranda
May 28 - 30, 2010
Alexander
CockburnVietnam MIAs:Ghosts Return toHaunt McCain andthe US Press
John RossThe Big Snatch
Mike WhitneyCredit Storm inEurope
Patrick CockburnIraq: Paralyzed,Dejected, Corrupt
Sharon Smith
Arizona's RancidHistory
Jonathan CookThe Torture of Ameer Makhoul
Greg MosesWorse or Worser inthe Gulf?
Saul LandauThe Reverend andthe Rentboy
Susan GalleymoreAgent Orange andthe Third
Generation
Ray McGovernDucking theChallenge
James Marc LeasTargeting the FreeGaza Flotilla
Tanya Golash-BozaDeportation asPunishment
Linn Washington,Jr.Don't Know MuchAbout (Race)
History
David Rosen /Bruce KushnickThe Great TelecomRip-Off
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David Ker ThomsonAgainst Farmers
Rannie AmiriLebanon MarksLiberation Day
Ramzy BaroudPaperless World
Harry BrowneWorld Cup: Brazil
and the US
Missy BeattieDancing with theScarred
Sheldon RichmanIs the PeaceMovement FinallyAwakening?
John V. WalshCompulsoryArmageddon
David MacarayHopelessness in theWorkplace
Laura FlandersDeBush, Debar, andDebunk
Charles R. LarsonNot the GreatPhilippine Novel?
Clancy SigalOh, What anUnlovely War:Hanks andSpielberg Do thePacific
David YearsleyShoes: the OutsideStory, FromBeckham to Clintonto Bach
Poets' BasementThree by S.C. Hahn
Website of theWeekendA Buffalo's Trail of Tears
May 27, 2010
Richard WardAmong theTeabaggers
Dean BakerA Crew of Incompetents
Winslow T. WheelerA Mutually AssuredDebacle
Franklin C. SpinneyDropping COIN:McChrystal Returnsto His Roots
John GrantDown the Road toConflagration
Bernard MarszalekBP to Hell: the OilGeyser and thePerformancePrinciple
Linh Dinh
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More Jive ThanJazz
Laura FlandersOn the Backs of Women
Deb KatzSneaking NewNukes Into the WarSpending Bill
Evelyn PringleThe Problems withReglan
Website of the DayMaking Money onthe Oil Spill
May 26, 2010
Jonathan CookIsrael's Nukes Outof the Shadows
Forrest HyltonChange ColombiansCan Believe In?
Peter LeeChina's Cool HandGame
Ron JacobsKilling Children:From Ghazi toDetroit
Greg MosesOil Wars ComeHome to Roost
James RothenbergWhy Afghanistan?
Mark WeisbrotThe Eurozone's
Self-Inflicted Crisis
Neve GordonEven Picnics inIsrael are Political
Lee SustarWinds of Change inChicago
FirminDeBrabanderContaining theMeat Spill
Website of the DayBP, Dead Fish andthe Tate Gallery
May 25, 2010
Uri AvneryChomsky at theGate
Gareth PorterReaffirmingAfghanistan's AlCapone
Mike WhitneySlash-and-BurnEconomics:Merkel's Savage
Blitz ThroughEuroland
Roberto RodriguezArizona and the BigPicture
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Charles M. YoungWatching thePentagon Channel
Randall AmsterTake a Hike:Misconceptions andMachinations inIran
Ramzy BaroudOvercoming theBush Legacy: NewLanguage is NotEnough
Linh DinhWashington andthe Small TimeCommies
Julie HildenThe Fair ReportPrivilege
Laura FlandersSomething's GottaGive
Website of the DayWhen Members of Congress Play theMarket
