AJE - Deaths in US army base shooting


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So, what do you think? Despite the atomized nature of the violence, I'm not sure that there is anything 'wrong' with what he did. It was an attack on the racist imperial forces of this nation. Obama's response was particularly childish and machiavellian, as usual.

No use crying over dead Americans, lets weep for the millions of resistence fighters

This might create some pretty bad backlash though.

When members of SDS went to Cuba to speak with Che (according to the book "Do it!") the young student radicals were mesmerized by Che's romantic stories of fighting the regime in Cuba -- hiking, shooting, camping, and revolution, what young American baby-boomer wouldn't fall in love with that image?

All the SDSers wished they could do that and wanted to join Che in fighting in other countries. Che said, no and that he envied the young students. He told them their fight was important because they were in the belly of the beast.

I think we have to keep this story (factual or not - it's from a memoir) in mind when talking about insurgencies. If you are occupied by a military force, you essentially have few options but to fight back physically. I think if Israel relied on Palestine for the majority of labor and production, any Palestinian fighter would gladly change tactics to mass strikes to try and win liberation.

For those of us in the bellies of the beast today in the US and UK we need to look to the movements that were actually able to grind the imperial armies to a halt: the resistance in the occupied countries and the radical anti-imperialist movements at home that in the US were able to stall the US military from the late 70s until the 90s and in Russia and Germany were able to turn their guns against their bosses and end WWI.

The US military is not scared by a lone gunman, they are scared of mass mutiny of GIs.

Honestly after first reading about this. I am still thinking about weather this man should go down in history as a heroe that gave his life resisting US Imperialism

every post a gem~

But yeah I don't like where this is going to lead. American muslim joins army and shoots the place up while shouting "god is great". I'm hoping the backlash won't be too bad.

How exactly did he do that may I ask?

Let's not get too carried away praising this guy, he liked American imperialism enough to sign up, and only did this because he felt personally insulted by the slurs that were being hurled at him constantly. I won't condemn his actions, but he's not a model anti-imperialist either.

Anyway, yeah, I'm not liking how this is going to be used in terms of anti-Muslim sentiment.

Just yesterday I over heard some kids at my school talking about how "some damn ay-rab terrorist" was shooting "innocent" Americans.