Interview: Americans Against U.S.-Led Wars Across The Globe
Press TV
February 5, 2012
‘Americans against US-led wars across globe’
An American anti-war activist says the majority of U.S. citizens are against their country’s military interventions across the globe or war threats against other countries including Iran.
“The majority of the American people are not supporters of rash and violent military actions abroad. Poll after poll demonstrate that Americans were in opposition to NATO’s and the U.S.’s military action against Libya, against the current war in Afghanistan which is now of course well into its eleventh year,” says Rick Rozoff, manager of Stop NATO in an exclusive interview with Press TV’s U.S. desk on Saturday.
“There is no consensus amongst the American population for threats against Iran, economic or military, and that is why the voice of the American people needs to be heard and for demonstrations like the ones that are being held preemptively,” Rozoff continued.
“There is a general dissatisfaction amongst the populous in the United States to saber-rattling, brinkmanship and other forms of military threats and aggression abroad.”
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Press TV
February 4, 2012
‘Obama attitude main threat to world peace’
An American anti-war activist says the bellicose attitude among U.S. civilian and military leaders including President Barack Obama is the main threat to world peace.
Obama “ironically on the occasion of receiving the Noble Peace Prize in December of 2009 boasted of being the commander-in-chief of a country at war in two countries. He was alluding to Afghanistan and Iraq at the time,” said Rick Rozoff, Manager of Stop NATO in an exclusive interview with Press TV’s U.S. desk on Saturday.
He added that Obama “also bragged about the United States being, and I quote him: the world’s sole military superpower, and it is that attitude amongst civilian and military leaders in the United States that is a threat to the world.”
This attitude “is adversely affecting Americans themselves, tens of thousands of whom are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychiatric problems as the result of the wars abroad but also tens of thousands of whom have come back maimed for life as a result of that,” Rozoff concluded.
I came to know about this site from Dandelion Salad, which had a link to it. I have read many of your good and objective articles on technical-military matters. However, in this interview your whole approach is subjective and erroneous and floats above the political economy of imperialism and militarism.
1. US imperialist militarism cannot be reduced to the attitudes of President Obama, the civilian or military leadership, or even the American population as a whole. This militarism is a structural part of the political economy of US imperialism, has always been there, and has been multiplying progressively.
2. As far as majority of Americans being against the wars and militarism is concerned, that is also nonsense. Initially, overwhelming majority supported the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Only when it became clear that these were or are unwinnable, causing great damages to economy and being a major factor in the economic crisis, the public opinion is shifting against them. But even now, peace candidates in the presidential or congressional elections do not stand a chance. If the electorate is as peace-loving and anti-war as you claim it is, why have they always elected war mongering and militarist imperialists to the highest government and legislative offices?
The following article posted on http://www.imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com, and reposted on Dandelion Salad, might interest you, as it goes deep into the root causes of such matters.
http://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/multidimensional-and-complex-nature-and-effects-of-imperialism-on-democracy-society-nature-and-human-nature-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/