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PEACE ACTIVISTS BECOME NON-PACIFISTS IN A HURRY WHEN THREATENED. Neo-Liberal Norah Vincent has an excellent article today:
...seven [human shields from America] had been camping relatively comfortably at the Sabanissan water treatment project in northern Baghdad, along with five Iraqi engineers who stayed at the plant to keep water flowing in their capital.[.....]
During the course of their time together, the Iraqi engineers confessed to the Marines that, in the beginning, they had hated the foreign activists, whom they saw as just another hassle they didn’t need, not to mention seven superfluous mouths they shouldn’t have had to feed at a time when their own countrymen were half-starved.
But all that changed when the invasion of Baghdad began and looters showed up at the plant, whereupon Marc Eubanks, described as “an American peace activist,” volunteered to patrol the grounds with an AK-47 assault rifle he borrowed from a cache the engineers had had the foresight to keep. As they walked the grounds together, one of the engineers confronted the looters, shouting: “Go and tell your partners the Americans are here, and they will destroy your houses if you don’t leave.”
Can this be true? A peace activist taking up arms with such alacrity? And allowing the force of the American military—whose imperialist aggression he so decries and whose humanitarian intent and protective efficacy he emphatically denies—to be invoked on his behalf?
Scratch a peacenik, it seems, and you’ll find a willing executioner when the threat is immediate enough.
Push a ranting anti-American to the wall and he’ll fall back on Uncle Sam for his deliverance.
The whole article is here.
