Brief Year End Commentary December 28,2009

Dear Friends

Andrew Xenios is a photographer with Salem State connections.  But he's
been all over.  Last time we emailed he was south of the border.  In
2007 he was in Afghanistan.  This link  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvtZlv7ryc   will take you to a slide
show of Xenios' photographs of Afghan orphans.

This slide show is designed, of course, to elicit our concern. However,
if I may editorialize, I should like to point out that no matter how
circumstances should be resolved in Afghanistan, no matter who is
actually responsible for the plight of these kids, you and your
descendants will inevitably be held reponsible for them because "our
country", decades before 9/ll, decided to place its armaments, for its
benefit, far from its own territory.

I just heard a radio report that in 2003 "we" held a drone attack on
suspected Alqaeda sites in Yemen. Yemen? How did "we" get there?  How
about being a half starved innocent civilian Yemeni or Afghani and
witnessing drone attacks? Speaking as one born and steeped in the
heritage of Eastern Massachusetts, that sort of thing, making
unConstitutional occupational war, radicalizes me.  I think that the
recently abandoned Massachusetts Evacution Day should be the first World
Holiday.  Get every foreign warship out of every foreign harbor. Of
course, the overwhelming majority of such warships are "ours".  The
radio report also informed that it looks like "we" are going to get more
involved in Yemen to prevent the possibility of what NOW (post drone
attack)  looks like failed state status.  I wonder how failed the United
States would be if we suffered drone attacks.  Personally, I'd rather
see failed states declared as Wilderness Areas and prevent any goverment
or institution from ever establishing there.  Governments, after all,
have an evil history of making wars.  Now that I think of it, though,
the biggest failed state is the United States of America . . . the obese
world redcoat where ball cap patriots throw away their search and
seizure rights for the opportunity to  fart  greenhouse gasses for the
sake of their tropical vacation flights . . . . that's why "we're"
"there" . . . everywhere . . . forever. 

Once again, here's the orphans: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvtZlv7ryc

You're gonna have a New Year. 

Brian Joyce
bjoyceart@123mail.org

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