Responses to the "Foldvary: The Failure of Anti-war Protesters" Article
Concerning the Foldvary: The Failure of Anti-war Protesters article:
The real question Simon Crean (Australia) is not ’why now, why this week?’ but ’why have we waited so long?’. We should have got rid of Saddam in 1991.
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The publisher replies:
What do you mean by "got rid of"?
Thursday March 13, 2003
Concerning the Foldvary: The Failure of Anti-war Protesters
article:
While I think Mr. Foldvary is right in pointing out that anti-protesting can and does undermine itself to some degree, I would attribute the effect to the difficulty of canonizing extremely diverse cross-sections of society and the paucity of information available as a unifying factor. I take issue with Mr. Foldvary’s reasoning, as well. Although I agree 100% that civil disobedience, mass tax strikes, and other nonviolent resistance are more effective and likely necessary tools to dissuade a goverment determined to go to war, I think it is unrealistic to aim the messages at the heads of government. The heads of this US government (1) likely have the information or at least have better access to the information that illuminates more peaceful yet eqully if not more effective alternatives. And they have shown that they will use powerful means to keep this information from reaching any significant portion of the population. The message is rightly directed toward the public at large.
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Monday March 10, 2003
Concerning the Foldvary: The Failure of Anti-war Protesters
article:
Your points about the strategy of the anti-war protesters are well taken. Yet, I still think you are being much to narrow in asserting that the drive to invade Iraq is not about oil. It seems to me that control over oil in a long-range, geopolitical sense is precisely the point of this war effort. Of course the goal is not "oil contracts" -- most of the current contracts for Iraqi oil are with the Russians and the French anyway. But that does not prove that the US’s goal is not to effectively ccontrol the political future of the Middle East, *because* it is the world’s largest storehouse of oil reserves.
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