Beyond Vietnam, Beyond Iraq, Beyond Afghanistan.
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Martin Luther King 1964 [Lib of Cong] Barack Obama 2008 [U.S. Government]
It’s the day after Martin died 41 years ago. In October I echoed the warning Martin sounded a year to the day before he died. It has gone unheeded.
Seventeen days ago marked the sixth year since the onslaught of “shock and awe” in Iraq. Harvard’s Legal Left commemorated the day with a talk by Pakistani-British journalist and activist Tariq Ali. He had some positive notes about very recent events reported in the Harvard Law Record.
But most of his remarks were sobering and echoed remarks made on Democracy Now! and in his book The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power.
Duncan Kennedy introducing Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali
Tariq was erudite, knowledgable about ‘facts on the ground’ and eloquent. But no less eloquent was a security guard from Nigeria with considerable anger at the arrogance and ignorance of Americans, “Afghanistan is a giant killer! You should look to history!”
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October 9, 2009 @ 9:47 am
[…] on DN! [They tried to reach journalist Jeremy Scahill2, but had technical difficulties.] In his talk at Harvard, Tariq expressed his doubt that US military activity in Pakistan is in the US…. In today’s interview he points out, among other things, that the war in Iraq-Afghanistan […]