By Ted Glick
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Thursday 27 July 2006

As a new front in the Middle East powder keg opens up in Lebanon, as Iraq descends into what can only be called civil war, as the Taliban makes a comeback in Afghanistan and as the US continues to rattle its sabers at Iran and Syria, it might make sense to step back and think more broadly about how the peace movement is ever going to turn this country away from its anti-democratic, dangerous support of repressive regimes in Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere in the Middle East. After all, though the war in Iraq has been especially brutal and hideous, the US has been throwing its weight around in this region for a long time, particularly since the end of World War II.

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