Comments on: The United States of Violence http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-united-states-of-violence/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike McNiven http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-united-states-of-violence/#comment-7763 Mike McNiven Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:21:40 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-united-states-of-violence/#comment-7763 As the ancient Greeks observed: No Justice Abroad, No Justice at Home! As the ancient Greeks observed: No Justice Abroad, No Justice at Home!

]]> By: gerald spezio http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-united-states-of-violence/#comment-7619 gerald spezio Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:30:51 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-united-states-of-violence/#comment-7619 In a short story, published one hundred years ago, William Dean Howells wrote: “What a thing it is to have a country that can’t be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!” During eighth grade social studies in a top notch Merican public school system we were all taught again and again a slight variation of the Howells quote; "My country right or wrong." In a short story, published one hundred years ago, William Dean Howells wrote: “What a thing it is to have a country that can’t be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!”

During eighth grade social studies in a top notch Merican public school system we were all taught again and again a slight variation of the Howells quote;

“My country right or wrong.”

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-united-states-of-violence/#comment-7607 Lloyd Rowsey Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:58:57 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/the-united-states-of-violence/#comment-7607 I suggest readers simply open their copies of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, and re-read the title essay. Here is America in Vietnam, as most literate and articulate of Americans still see it. The good guys lugging around impossibly heavy weapons in an earlier nightmare. But I may be wrong. I'm only on page 9. Imagine Iraq, if you haven't been there. Imagine Vietnam, if you weren't there. Then Imagine Iraq again, because there will be no literature coming out of Iraq. I suggest readers simply open their copies of The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, and re-read the title essay. Here is America in Vietnam, as most literate and articulate of Americans still see it. The good guys lugging around impossibly heavy weapons in an earlier nightmare. But I may be wrong. I’m only on page 9.

Imagine Iraq, if you haven’t been there. Imagine Vietnam, if you weren’t there.

Then Imagine Iraq again, because there will be no literature coming out of Iraq.

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