Allow me explain my own actions, especially since the wars that signaled the end of the "Vietnam Syndrome." Starting, for me, in 1983; That's when Ronald Reagan, under false pretenses, invaded the tiny island of Grenada. Population 100,000. I protested in the streets. In 1989, George Herbert Walker Bush, acting under false pretenses, invaded Panama, killing AT LEAST 3000 civilians in El Chorillo alone. I marched in protest here in Madison WI, with about 12 other people in minus 10 degree Fahrenheit weather. All throughout the 1980's I protested, wrote letters to the editor, called talk shows in vociferous protest against Washington's funding of the Nicaraguan Contras and Salvadoran Death Squads. Got arrested at an anti-nuke rally in Colorado on Hiroshima Day (Aug 6) 1987.
Protested the 1991 Gulf War as an unspeakable crime against humanity AND international law. Ditto for Clinton's "Drive-by" wars and his murderous sanctions against Iraq. Protested the NATO bombing of the former Yugolslavia. Continue protesting the 2001-present war in Afghanistan, and George W. Bush/Barack Obama's 2003-2010 Iraq War too.
The reason I do so is because, like it or not, I am an American citizen, and feel a special responsibility for the blood shed in MY name. But I will try to pay more attention to the horror in Sudan. It's kind of tough; so many years, so many tears, so many wars. Probably sounds like I'm boasting, sorry, didn't mean it that way. It just seems so overwhelming at times. I still remember being 10 years old when Allende was overthrown by ITT/Kissinger/Nixon/CIA. Ten thousand people, mostly students jammed the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. People had the Power. Even in America! To look around me now - that world is so, so long ago and seems so, so dead. But we will bring those kinds of crowds back to the UW, I am sure of it!
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