Vladislav Davidzonthe art of doing the impossible – thoughts on the great turning

There is a very real, very human context to the struggle, a context of the people who have come before, and who will come after. After viewing the “Weather Underground” it was quite shocking to see just how eerily similar the current situation in Iraq is to the situation in Vietnam.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. When the oppression is by force, there will be resistance by force. We may very well be fighting ourselves, but this is such simple context to nearly every violent action we see today, and it is a context that we must be able to understand if we are to prevent the next 9-11.
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From http://msnbc.com/news/934282.asp?0cv=CA01

“The persistent blackouts — U.S. and Iraqi specialists blame sabotage, looting, war damage and the failure of antiquated equipment — have transformed a city that once was regarded as the most advanced in the Arab world to a place of pre-industrial privation where shopkeepers hawk their wares on the sidewalk, housewives store food in iceboxes and families sleep outdoors.”

Yea, liberate we did.