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Re: technical note:
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Wednesday, August 17 2016, 4:30:20 (UTC)
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This is typical of some western leftists:

Camus, whose book, "The Stranger" is one of my favorite reads, revealed his "Frenchness" when his birthplace of Algeria where his mother resided blew up in conflict when the FLN took on the French colonialists who had annexed the Arab nation to France for almost a hundred and thirty or so years. He had written that, "People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers. My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice, then I prefer my mother."

Sartre, who took the opposite position than Camus regarding the Algerian War, and later after Camus' death, Vietnam... got exposed by Edward Said when Said attempted to confront him regarding his catatonic stance on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, concluding that:

"For reasons that we still cannot know for certain, Sartre did indeed remain constant in his fundamental pro-Zionism. Whether that was because he was afraid of seeming anti-semitic, or because he felt guilt about the Holocaust, or because he allowed himself no deep appreciation of the Palestinians as victims of and fighters against Israel’s injustice, or for some other reason, I shall never know. All I do know is that as a very old man he seemed pretty much the same as he had been when somewhat younger: a bitter disappointment to every (non-Algerian) Arab who admired him."

Blum has a hell of a blind spot when he writes, "From the 1950s to the 1980s the United States carried out atrocities against Latin America, including numerous bombings, without the natives ever resorting to the repulsive uncivilized kind of retaliation as employed by ISIS. Latin American leftists took their revenge out on concrete representatives of the American empire: diplomatic, military and corporate targets, not markets, theatres, nightclubs, hospitals, restaurants or churches." That's true, but in the early 1980's when I was in high school in L.A., the byproduct of the war in El Salvador shaped the most violent gang whose brutality matches those of ISIS in various ways, and whose reign of terror is now global... I'm talking about Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, made up of the PTS-ridden children of Salvadorians who'd made their way to L.A., escaping the slow motion, living nightmare at the hands of well-trained and funded right-wing death squads, and whose memories of "home" consisted of a slasher movie-like atmosphere of raped women, hacked bodies, decapitated or skinned alive, thanks to the nefarious teachings of The School of the Americas, better known to its mutilated surviving victims, as "La Escuela de Asesinos".

We watch films, or read books about the dark days of Nazism, rooting for the brave Partisans and La Résistance, when they fight against the Nazis and Fascists, or slowly and painfully die in the cold solitude of torture chambers. Why do we not feel the same when brown or black people resist? Are they not as noble as the Europeans?

Today, on a program on LINK TV, a woman was saying that 17 out of the 25 ISIS leaders were prisoners at Camp Bucca, where they were continuously tortured, sodomized and humiliated in front of women. She ended her talk by saying that if she had been tortured and sodomized, she'd possibly be capable of doing what ISIS does in retaliation.

But... I have to agree with Blum's conclusion, since like Blum I too live in the U.S. and have no recent or future plans of living anywhere else. And if the shit hits the fan, and we're attacked by ISIS or some other outfit, I'd have to be truthful and say that I'll be standing behind the U.S army to protect my life, and like Camus, my dear mother's life.



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