[Sosfbay-discuss] Our Children's Children's War

[JamBoi]

I mostly agree.  However I'll offer the addendum that sloganizing is
good for the soul and gives us an opportunity for self expression
(which is frequently suppressed in our conformist society) and those
that haven't experienced the joy of sloganzing need to try it before
knocking it.  

Nevertheless sloganizing can not be the end point, but is rather just
the initial, organizing point.  By organizing with folks who agree with
us (as represented by common sloganizing), we can connect with
like-minded progressive individuals.  From that point we must then
design and implement practical actions that live out our 10 Key Values.
 The Tipping Point is approaching in our society and we need to start
preparing ourselves for how we will actually wield electoral
representative power as we will soon be getting elected to office from
lowest to highest office.  Mark my words!

Impeach for Peace!

Drew


--- Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net> wrote:

> I would like to call attention to the special on the Discovery
> Channel 
> tonight, entitled Our Children's Children's War.  This is a Ted
> Koppel 
> (ex. Nightline on ABC) special.  Koppel was on Meet the Press this AM
> 
> plugging the show and offering some unusual commentary.  In his view,
> 
> the Iraq War will be the major issue for the Democratic President in 
> 2009.  It will still be going on as part of the war on terror... and
> the 
> Democrats have little idea about what to do.  Even if we were to pull
> 
> out in 2007, the war will still be going on.  It will be changed, but
> it 
> still will continue.
> 
> Should the Democrats success in cutting funding for additional forces
> in 
> Iraq, they would carry the responsibility for the results of that 
> action.  I do not think that they want that responsibility prior to
> the 
> 2008 election.  It is much easier to run against someone else's
> failures.
> 
> Koppel's most insightful generalization: "There is a lot of wishful 
> thinking in Washington."  We must remember that political
> pronouncements 
> are designed to have a political effect, not to change policy.  There
> is 
> a reality that we have not begun to meet the challenges of the 21st 
> Century and that we, as a nation, may not be the fittest to survive.
> 
> It is my personal observation that you can not change people's heart 
> with a gun to their head.  The ideologues in Washington (leader: Dick
> 
> Cheney) have yet to understand that fact.  You win the battle of 
> ideologies by living your ideology to the fullest.  You are what you
> do, 
> not what you say. 
> 
> As we go forward, I believe that the Green Party needs to divorce
> itself 
> from the cheer leading sloganizing and to start going forward with 
> alternative solutions.  I have never believed that it is enough to
> say 
> "Stop!!!".  We must begin to say "Do this instead of that."   That
> may 
> mean that we redefine the problems of American into questions that
> lead 
> to Green solutions.
> 
> Along with saying "Impeach" we should provide a Green analysis of the
> 
> consequences of Impeachment.  There is no doubt that Bush / Cheney
> have 
> acted in a manner that at odds with Americans' beliefs about
> ourselves 
> and the laws that enshrine those beliefs.  But, along with the 
> impeachment slogans, we have to anticipate those consequences:
> 
> - a paralysis in the decision making processes of government. 
> -- anyone wishing to act against this country will take advantage of 
> that. Therefore....(I don't have the answer, but I am thinking about
> it.)
> 
> - a gain in world confidence about the American people and a loss in 
> world confidence about the American Government.
> 
> - establishment of a level of expectation that may be difficult for a
> 
> new government to meet.
> 
> Now is the time that the Green Party needs to put forward it's plans
> and 
> they have to be stated in a positive manner, not just negatives.  As 
> noted above, the Democrats will want to run against the failures of
> the 
> Bush Administration without bearing any responsibility for any of
> those 
> failures.  Do we Greens have the cojones (to borrow a phrase from 
> Madeline Albright) to define the alternatives?
> 
> -- 
> 
> I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
> Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
> Being willing is not enough; 
> We must do. –Leonardo DaVinci
> Wesley C. Rolley
> 17211 Quail Court
> Morgan Hill, CA 95037
> (408)778-3024 - http://cagreening.blogspot.com
> 
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JamBoi
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