Posted on 07/14/2005 9:46:54 AM PDT by kristinn
Virginia Rodino, who serves as a director for Ralph Nader's Democracy Rising and is on the administrative steering committee for the so-called antiwar group United for Peace and Justice, called for the military defeat of the United States in Iraq in an essay published July 5.
In addition to her roles in Nader's Democracy Rising and United for Peace and Justice, Rodino was the Green Party's 2004 candidate for the House of Representatives for the 7th Congressional district of Maryland and the Maryland state coordinator for the 2004 presidential campaign of Nader.
Rodino is currently a professor of communications at Bowie State University in Maryland.
In her essay, Rodino writes about a recent 'unity' meeting between the two leading so-called antiwar groups in the U.S., International Answer and United for Peace and Justice in preparation for a weekend of protests in Washington, D.C. starting September 24. She calls for the left to play down its "unconditional support for the Iraqi resistance" by playing up the theme of 'bring the troops home now' so they can more effectively take advantage of left wing military family and veterans groups.
Rodino in her own words:
Iraq is now the Achilles heel of the beast, the U.S. government's drive for empire. Battered, raw, exposed, this point must be the focus of the anti-Imperialist Left in the United States: Efforts must continue to strike away at this concentrated weakness.
It is a crucial moment and a critical decision. Not because the Haitians, the Palestinians, the domestic poor and abused are any less deserving of liberation, but because ultimately a victory of the Iraqi people against the U.S. war machine is a victory for liberation struggles around the globe. A military defeat in Iraq will infuse confidence into struggles everywhere, as it did when the U.S. military was forced to withdraw from Vietnam. And the U.S. military is indeed losing, despite the unconvincing bravadura recently displayed by Bush, Cheney, and the other warmongers.
Thus, the focus on Iraq and bringing the troops home is ultimately strategic, "strategizing" being a mode of practice in which a unified Left must re-adopt in order to win back the gains and confidence it lost through reactionary right-wing assaults since the McCarthy era.
Rodino recently came to conservatives' attention when she was quoted as supporting the Iraqi resistance in a story about the recent G8 meeting protests in Scotland.
Another Useful Idiot and resident Moonbat.
The left rears its ugly head again.
Another cockroach surfaces.
D.C. Chapter mega ping. Looks like a freep of Bowie State may be in order.
ANOTHER liberal college professor... imagine that...
Nope, no bias in the media. No bias in schools....
Wants the terrorists to win.
D.C. Chapter mega ping. Looks like a freep of Bowie State may be in order.
How do people achieve such a distorted view of reality? Did the last hits of acid not wear off?
Dear kristinn,
I'm not far from Bowie State. Let me know when and where, and I'll see if it would fit in my schedule.
Thanks,
sitetest
Let her have it. Going to hit MoveOn at the White House today?
Now I have to look up where Bowie is.
It is sometimes useful to pin these people down as to what they mean by "liberation." The answer tends to be very revealing, turning up such specimens of oppression as Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, and yes, Pol Pot in his time. Ask what they intend these people to be liberated from and you'll get a laundry list of leftist fantasy-world "isms" - colonialism, imperialism, capitalism - this stuff was stale 50 years ago and is beginning to stink.
Is this aiding and abetting the enemies of the USA?
Alas, probably not. Treason is not a crime that can
be committed anymore.
(But if anyone had called for the defeat of the USA
during WWII, I think they might have been locked up. . .)
The time for tolerance of these people should be over. They are not simply dissenting voices anymore they are blindly hostile to the US and are nothing more than traitors and must be treated as such. I will be very pleased to see her in handcuffs escorted by a federal marshall.
Yeah, it was always obvious that the communications department wasn't the place to look for talented writers or capable scholars.
This is among the lamest attempts at concise writing I've ever read from a *ahem* scholar. Had an undergrad written this, I would've returned it ungraded with a question mark.
No no, it was to steal their oil and sustain our thirst for cheap gas...
...for which I paid $2.59/gallon last night.
And don't you dare question her patriotism.
(steely)
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