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Editorial, The Man Without A Country
Walter A. Davis
 There’s a pious little short story that most of us may remember from grade school. It’s about a man who cursed his country, saying I never want to hear the words “The United States of America” again. He got his wish, being banished to some ship where everyone was strictly forbidden to use those words and where all news of his country was kept from him. And so years later he died with the words he now longed to hear—“The United States of America”—plaintively on his lips. We were also told a nice story about Napoleon who, after his greatest victory, said that the happiest day of his life was the day he made his First Holy Communion. We must never forget—before it is unassailable idea, ideology is first always sentimental dreck. We keep coming entering in the middle of the movie—positioned so by the media—and so we miss the big picture. (“Hezbollah seized two soldiers and therefore…”... “ Israel blew out electricity in Gaza and therefore…” ) The big picture: the Palestinians are just a pawn in World War III—a war between global capitalism (in its fascist, fundamentalist stage) and Islamic fundamentalism (in its suicidal phase). And that is why all that’s going on now is but a prelude to the hit on Iran coming in October or November. Perhaps even a justification for the use then of nuclear bunker buster bombs. August 6th approaches and no one has learned anything.  It has now become the ethical justification for a genocidal policy of state terrorism that deliberately targets innocent civilians. Yes, indeed, in response to acts of suicidal terror on the other side. 
I stopped attending Church 40 years ago. But I watch Meet the Press every Sunday. It’s the next best thing. Where today one could hear both Mr. Gillerman, the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. and Thomas Friedman echo the grand mantra: “It won’t stop until they love their children more than they hate us.” (Thank you, Golda Meir.) This has now become the ethical justification for a genocidal policy of state terrorism that deliberately targets innocent civilians. Yes, indeed, in response to acts of suicidal terror on the other side. Which must ideologically become the object of fixation—the cause of what Gillerman etc. claim is a “justified” response, a blank check that can be filled out anywhere in Lebanon. Because entering in the middle of the movie is the ideological command that must be followed by both sides in the present conflict. Otherwise we’ll become people without a country. Oh, I almost forgot, Mr. Friedman was there in the second half of Meet the Press to offer us a balanced assessment of the “two sides.” It was, by the way, a fascinating performance, capped by this unforgettable sentence (and believe me he almost teared up saying it): “Optimistic America: people throughout the world need that idea.” Thus did the main ideologue of global capitalism, Mr. The-world-is-flat deliver to Dubya the message from the true rulers that he’s become disposable. Once he finishes their dirty work, a kinder, gentler face will be put on the whole thing. Yes, indeed, The New York Times is one haven of anti-american radicalism. But back to reality. Atrocity. Qana is an Ad taken out by the Israeli lobby for the upcoming production in New York of My Name is Rachel Corrie. Bush is the greatest recruiter Al Qaeda ever had and Israel the greatest boon to the efforts of Hezbollah to radicalize the Lebanese. But this is all by design. And both sides know it. If I seem to have slanted this editorial against the U.S. and Israel it is only because each of us must begin with the rot in our own country. That how one attains World Citizenship. (Oh, and by the way, leaflets were dropped in Qana the day before warning the innocent to flee. Where to? Just as leaflets were dropped the day before with similar warnings to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oh, and by the way, Nagasaki had the largest Christian population in Japan.) Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche since 9-11
By Walter A. Davis
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To declare war on terror is to declare war on both sides. State Terror is the primary reality. Its centers are Washington and Tehran. And so where is the human position toward what is happening? The one that has a right to mourn the death of innocent children? Later this week I’ll suggest that it comes in a new form of terror—a terror that wages war on all of them, on both sides. (Otherwise we’ll end up pure humanists, clutching our ethical purity as the haven to deliver us from historical responsibility.) But for now I ask all of you to tell me where I’ve gone wrong in the foregoing argument? That is, why a plague on both your houses is not the only position that a human being can take toward the Third World War?
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