From Jim Gilliam's blog

Confronting Our Fears

March 18, 2003 08:22 PM

Robert Jensen: "I think people all over the world whose capacity to feel has not been occluded by power or hate are feeling something like this. It is not a fear of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction or even necessarily of this particular war, as frightening as all those things may be.

I believe it is a fear of something more difficult to pin down, a fear of the forces that will be unleashed when the United States defies the world and launches a war that -- while couched in talk of protecting people from threats -- is so obviously about projecting U.S. power to achieve a kind of world domination that was never possible before."

More from the archive in Imperialism, War and Peace.

Starbucks at risk in Iraq (09.15.2005)
Who would Jesus whack? (08.25.2005)
The Legacy of George W. Bush (05.09.2004)

Next Entry: Things to Come (03.19.2003)
Previous Entry: A Naked Bid to Redraw World Map (03.18.2003)

Jim Gilliam
Jim Gilliam
Learn more about me or read my blog. For the latest on my lung transplant situation, check on jim.

Email:







Add to My Yahoo!

Last week's soundtrack:

jgilliam's Last.fm Weekly Artists Chart

Iraq for Sale - The War Profiteers