I compeletely agree with your position.
This war is not only wrong, it is a crime.
I believe that both political parties are complicit before and after this war crime.
So please understand that what follows in no way disputes or negates opposition to the war or the criminal government that initiated it.
Yet it appears that your opposition to the war has found traction by targeting the marine recruiters. This will draw more support for the war than resistance to the war.
I belive that although your aim is true, you have targeted the hammer, rather than the hand of the carpenter which weilds the hammer.
The marines are an easy target, but targeting the marines will ultimatly harm the movement more than the marines, or the war machine.
Your attack on the marines will draw more recruits than it discourages.
No matter how rightious it makes you and your little group feel.
We have been confronted with the canard of "support the troops" to cover the crimes of the war.
This is inapproiate for those who are for or against the war.
By using the troops as a proxy for your political resistance to the war, you are no different than the government that has hidden behing "the troops" to justify their criminal war.
Apparently, both "sides" are willing to hide behind the troops to make their points.
I don't know who I am more disgusted by. I do. the government. but it's sad you have adopted their disgusting means.
Target the source of the crimes, the hand that weilds the hammer, not the hammer.
the hammer, the troops, must never be mistaken for, or used by either side as a proxy for the political struggles over their useage.
Are you an idiot? have you learned nothing from vietnam?
So, although I agree with your ends, I reject your means: by targeting the troops you are harming the anti-war movement more than helping it.
Marine recruiting will rise in responce to your protest, bucking the tailspin in recruitment that our criminal war has provoked.
on a side note, I have been a four season backpacker in our beuitiful sierras for decades. It took years to penetrate the high sierras in mid winters, building experience year on year.
during this time, I have had the pleasure of running across enlisted marines doing winter training on the east side of sonora pass. Not only are they great dudes, they have, generally, the highest ideals of service.
It's not their fault that we have failed them.
And they were not reenlisting, but I'm sure your actions will convince a few dozen to stay in...
alex wierbinski
alexwierbinski@committeefordemocracy.org
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