@mattlech.bsky.social

@mattlech.bsky.social

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producer, Majority Report, Jacobin Show; host, Left Reckoning

is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality
Pappe, Lobbying for Zionism
Text: The Mission was always telling us about VC units being engaged and wiped out and then reappearing a month later in full strength, there was nothing very spooky about that, but when we went up against his terrain we usually took it defini- DISPATCHES 4 tively, and even if we didn't keep it you could always see that we'd at least been there. At the end of my first week in- country I met an information oficer in the headquarters of the 25th Division at Cu Chi who showed me on his map and then from his chopper what theyd done to the Ho Bo Woods, the vanished Ho Bo Woods, taken off by giant Rome plows and chemicals and long, slow fire, wasting hundreds of acres of cultivated plantation and wild forest alike, "denying the enemy valuable resources and cover." It had been part of his job for nearly a year now to tell people about that operation; correspondents, touring con- gressmen, movie stars, corporation presidents, staff officers from half the armies in the world, and he still couldn't get over it. It seemed to be keeping him young, his enthusiasm made you feel that even the letters he wrote home to his wife were full of it, it really showed what you could do if you had the know-how and the hardware. And if in the months fol- lowing that operation incidences of enemy activity in the larger area of War Zone C had increased "significantly," and American losses had doubled and then doubled again, none of it was happening in any damn Ho Bo Woods, you'd better believe it. Copyrighted mater
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