A peaceful Palm Sunday in the shadow of war
by Justin Raimondo
On Sunday, I spoke at an event organized by a coalition of peace groups marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3447 church over on Franklin Street.
It was a beautiful spring day, and, although the program wouldn’t start until 5 in the evening, it was still light, and warm (warm, that is, for http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3638, who I believe is some sort of actor.
Being a speaker, I got to sit in the front row, angled between Dan Ellsberg – an old friend – and Matt Gonzalez, the former president of San Francisco’s board of supervisors who very narrowly missed getting elected mayor, and the only guy in the room wearing a suit. I looked around for Sean Penn, or somebody who just might be Sean Penn, but saw nobody fitting that description. (He never showed.)
Go here for Matt Gonzalez’s speech, which was thoughtful and radical. Yet I wondered at the dichotomy he drew between the moral and economic arguments against the invasion and conquest of Iraq: as the Iraq Recession sets in and people lose their homes, their jobs, and their hopes, is this any less immoral – and consequential – than the carnage we are wreaking in Iraq? Well, yes, it is, but it is only a matter of degrees of coercion. And what about the poor – don’t they suffer the most?
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