"There is no difference, the Republicans will stab you in the stomach, and the Democrats will stab you in the back."This what a Chinese diplomat once told me (in 1971)regarding the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. - Macu
I know I'll be taken to task for this, but I am going to repost something from Lou Proyect that summarizes quite nicely my objections to the not-quite-dead-yet Tom Hayden/PDA et al “alternative exit strategy” for the US in Iraq, and the whole political project behind it, which is about saving the Democratic Party. I have always acknowledged the difference between Democrats and the Democratic Party (leadership), and even argued for dialectical flexibility in many cases. But when Kerry took the war off the table in 2004 as an electoral issue, that was the last straw of proof I needed to see the necessity of burying this obscene institution once and for all, as the most significant obstacle to progress in the US today. As US society becomes more polarized with the evolution of multiple social crises and soical mobilizations, the last thing we need is to have an anchor tied to our asses by these right-opportunists in the DP — which is exactly what the PDA wants to resurrect! The fact that they would dither around with "alternative" exit strategies from Iraq, that are not exits at all but proposals to continue the occupation, while people continue to die, says all I ever need to know about PDA. Those of us with something at stake there cannot afford this kind of white middle-class diletentism.
