Dissident Veteran For Peace: Glass Houses & 'Comfort Women'

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Glass Houses & 'Comfort Women'

Thanks to an anonymous commenter to my "Apologies & Global Dimming" post for the tip on the April 2007 AP report: "Documents: U.S. troops used 'comfort women' after WWII."

Right: U.S. sailors gather in front of a Yasu-ura House "comfort station" in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, in this undated image released by the Yokosuka City Council.

See also: Opposing Prostitution As a Form of Male Violence: the Swedish Model

Labels: prostitution, United States, violence