Today, King would be tracing for us the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, beginning with Brzezinski convincing President Carter to arm and fund the fundamentalist hill tribes fighting against a modern, women liberating Kabul government, in order to sucker the Soviets into intervening six months later - Brzezinski now boasts of this, disregarding the blow-back of 9/11. King would be speaking of the of CIA with Saudi Arabia having funded thousands of new Wahhabi extremist schools in Afghanistan and initially supporting the Taliban government to facilitate construction of an oil pipeline. Recently the NY Times has been reporting multiple killings of merely suspected Taliban as good news.
If King were here today he would go back to study the U.S. originally promoting Iraqi Bathists into power. Now Bathists 'insurgents' are killing U.S. soldiers.
King spoke of the U.S. sponsoring the "murderous reign of Diem" until Diem's assassination was allowed by President Kennedy to make room for a long line of Generals to dictate, while we provided troops to quell a rebellion in the delta. King in 2007 would have not let us forget that in Iraq, Reagan used his man Saddam to war against Iran at a cost of one million lives. Our Saddam gets hanged as a criminal, while our occupation troops continue to fight rebellion, with the Commander in Chief focused more on Iran.
“Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."
"For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."-
No one alive can top this, so let the words of our martyred King Jr. repeat and have their powerful and healing effect.
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