'maybe the dark night will begin to come to an end with obama's move. finally, an intelligent and courageous
moment.'
Obama is a masterof speeches. There is no one else to match him in recent times.He is the opposite of
Bush on that front.
But as I said before the Obama and Bush administrations are joined to the hip
on foreign policy.
Bush could not articulate what he wanted to do. Obama is the master in
articulating what he probably wouldn't do - for reasons best known to him
and the Illuminati defenders of the New World Order.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
________________________________________
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:29 PM
To: usaafricadialogue
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - obama's speech
ending a real war is no easy thing; it involves negotiations, efforts to
acquire strong positions from which to negotiate, hatreds and mistrust
built from the years of propaganda needed to mobilize the popular; anger
of those who lost family members, were victimized by the enemy, etc etc
ending a "war," a so-called war, a fabricated war, fabricated so as to
serve the right-wing ideological aspirations of a conservative party
that had no clear enemy on which to focus its venom and around which to
mobilize the basest instincts of the populace, has proven to be near
impossible.
i was desperately disappointed in obama's seemingly thoughtless
continuation of bush's phony war, and of the politics that brushed aside
human rights. human rights mean, fundamentally, respect for the person,
the underlying basis of a decent society. we lost that with torture,
rendition, guantanemo, drone attacks, and maybe worst of all, a mindset
of arrogant self-righteousness that found the vocabulary to turn the
"enemy" into non-persons by labeling them "terrorists."
what a nightmare that that word has become common coin now everywhere,
from china to mali to you-name-it. not only combatants, but enemy
combatants, without rights-terrorists--who are no longer deemed to
possess any rights, much less common humanity.
obama has started to turn that monstrous vessel, the "war on terrorism"
around. after all, if a pseudo-war can be declared, a pseudo-war can be
declared ended. and if its end isn't, and can't be negotiated since
there is no one to negotiate with, no unified constituted enemy, only
the amorphous hatred of vast swathes of people, then whose to say that
the war itself isn't over.
if madeleine albright has the temerity to say that it wasn't genocide in
rwanda, just "acts of genocide" which didn't merit outside intervention,
then obama can say that attacks like the boston marathon bombing, are
"acts of terrorism" without them being battles in a war; he can stop
bombing people whose enmity hasn't been determined in a legal framework,
can stop assassinating people and anyone around them; can start to
release people imprisoned for "crimes" that were never judged to be such
in a court of law, people guilty before being proven innocent.
let's face it, we have an important moment to celebrate. cautiously,
since rightwing hawks will try to build public sentiment against this,
unscrupulously fanning flames of hatred and ignorance whenever they can,
from bengazi to kabul, with not a clue about how to halt opposition to
the u.s. except by the use of force, the misuse of force--barely hiding
their desire for the one really imperial flaw in the u.s., the desire
for hegemony.
i'd love to hear the voices of our own gloria emeagwali or moses ochunu
speak up for this change in policy. we have been lost in this dreadful
course set in motion by bush at 9/11. maybe the dark night will begin to
come to an end with obama's move. finally, an intelligent and courageous
moment.
ken
--
kenneth w. harrow
faculty excellence advocate
distinguished professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
619 red cedar road
room C-614 wells hall
east lansing, mi 48824
ph. 517 803 8839
harrow@msu.edu
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moment.'
Obama is a masterof speeches. There is no one else to match him in recent times.He is the opposite of
Bush on that front.
But as I said before the Obama and Bush administrations are joined to the hip
on foreign policy.
Bush could not articulate what he wanted to do. Obama is the master in
articulating what he probably wouldn't do - for reasons best known to him
and the Illuminati defenders of the New World Order.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
________________________________________
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:29 PM
To: usaafricadialogue
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - obama's speech
ending a real war is no easy thing; it involves negotiations, efforts to
acquire strong positions from which to negotiate, hatreds and mistrust
built from the years of propaganda needed to mobilize the popular; anger
of those who lost family members, were victimized by the enemy, etc etc
ending a "war," a so-called war, a fabricated war, fabricated so as to
serve the right-wing ideological aspirations of a conservative party
that had no clear enemy on which to focus its venom and around which to
mobilize the basest instincts of the populace, has proven to be near
impossible.
i was desperately disappointed in obama's seemingly thoughtless
continuation of bush's phony war, and of the politics that brushed aside
human rights. human rights mean, fundamentally, respect for the person,
the underlying basis of a decent society. we lost that with torture,
rendition, guantanemo, drone attacks, and maybe worst of all, a mindset
of arrogant self-righteousness that found the vocabulary to turn the
"enemy" into non-persons by labeling them "terrorists."
what a nightmare that that word has become common coin now everywhere,
from china to mali to you-name-it. not only combatants, but enemy
combatants, without rights-terrorists--who are no longer deemed to
possess any rights, much less common humanity.
obama has started to turn that monstrous vessel, the "war on terrorism"
around. after all, if a pseudo-war can be declared, a pseudo-war can be
declared ended. and if its end isn't, and can't be negotiated since
there is no one to negotiate with, no unified constituted enemy, only
the amorphous hatred of vast swathes of people, then whose to say that
the war itself isn't over.
if madeleine albright has the temerity to say that it wasn't genocide in
rwanda, just "acts of genocide" which didn't merit outside intervention,
then obama can say that attacks like the boston marathon bombing, are
"acts of terrorism" without them being battles in a war; he can stop
bombing people whose enmity hasn't been determined in a legal framework,
can stop assassinating people and anyone around them; can start to
release people imprisoned for "crimes" that were never judged to be such
in a court of law, people guilty before being proven innocent.
let's face it, we have an important moment to celebrate. cautiously,
since rightwing hawks will try to build public sentiment against this,
unscrupulously fanning flames of hatred and ignorance whenever they can,
from bengazi to kabul, with not a clue about how to halt opposition to
the u.s. except by the use of force, the misuse of force--barely hiding
their desire for the one really imperial flaw in the u.s., the desire
for hegemony.
i'd love to hear the voices of our own gloria emeagwali or moses ochunu
speak up for this change in policy. we have been lost in this dreadful
course set in motion by bush at 9/11. maybe the dark night will begin to
come to an end with obama's move. finally, an intelligent and courageous
moment.
ken
--
kenneth w. harrow
faculty excellence advocate
distinguished professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
619 red cedar road
room C-614 wells hall
east lansing, mi 48824
ph. 517 803 8839
harrow@msu.edu
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