spittingonhegel:

bashi-bazouk replied to your post: Sorry but if you support the Iranian regime as…

No you dont get it, the enemy of my enemy is my friend duhhh. If youre not America then youre, like, misunderstood and actually fantastic. Iran is, like, forced into this…

The political standard I’m seeing is colloquially referred to as a “Cruise Missile Leftists” and they’re a plague on the anti-imperialist movement. Good luck. Just don’t expect logic. Expect pedantics and archaic theories along with a dedication to some organization they ascribe to religiously above and beyond any rational humanistic approach to the issue at hand. For instance they’ll blame the Syrian government (who by the way are Baathists, and like Hussein in Iraq were helped to power by the US State department and the CIA… See BBC’s Adam Curtis’ “The Baby and the Baathwater” for more) because they were literally set up to bomb their own cities to rout CIA mercenaries imported from Libya and elsewhere…and the government’s other option? Submit to conquest.

They wouldn’t support Muammar al-Gaddafi because he was a dictator. Yeah one who brought water to the Bedoins and financed ANY African Union country’s development projects on one simple term. Root the corruption… Read Western influence, out of the country’s government. How a person calling themselves a Socialist or Leftist can rationalize the type of crap spewed by the Cruise Missile crowd is beyond me… They implicitly and sometimes openly support NATO for fuck sake! Armchair Marxist and archetypal “Cruiser” Lou Proyect along with his Leftist stock market investment advisor buddy Doug Henwood supported the US invasion of Iraq too. Sick.

And calls to support their pet faction in the politics or underground movement of the country is a no go simply because if that approach is taken the government falls for sure due to internal factionalism and for FUCKING SURE the occupier or new regime will simply… snuff… out… the “Cruiser’s” pets.

(Source: thestolencaryatid)

Martin Luther King Jr Speaks To Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam

4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

Gleaned from American Rhetoric, Online Speech Bank.

“Peace and Civil Rights don’t mix they say, so this morning I speak to you on this issue because I am determined to take the Gospel seriously…”
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar… …it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

[…] Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path.

At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: “Why are you speaking about the war, Dr. King?” “Why are you joining the voices of dissent?” “Peace and civil rights don’t mix,” they say. “Aren’t you hurting the cause of your people,” they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.

In the light of such tragic misunderstanding, I deem it of signal importance to try to state clearly, and I trust concisely, why I believe that the path from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church — the church in Montgomery, Alabama, where I began my pastorate — leads clearly to this sanctuary tonight.

I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to Hanoi or to the National Liberation Front. It is not addressed to China or to Russia. Nor is it an attempt to overlook the ambiguity of the total situation and the need for a collective solution to the tragedy of Vietnam. Neither is it an attempt to make North Vietnam or the National Liberation Front paragons of virtue, nor to overlook the role they must play in the successful resolution of the problem. While they both may have justifiable reasons to be suspicious of the good faith of the United States, life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that conflicts are never resolved without trustful give and take on both sides.

Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the National Liberation Front, but rather to my fellow Americans…[…]

Full text of speech onsite