10 Things Martin Luther King Would have Done about Iraq (Juan Cole)

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Monday, January 16, 2006

10 Things Martin Luther King Would have Done about Iraq

Every year we honor Martin, and we hear again his stirring sppech, "I have a Dream." But in many ways, that speech is among the least challenging of his charges to us, however hard and unfulfilled it remains. He dreamed other dreams, of the end of exploitative materialism and relentless militarism, of an America devoted to social justice and creative non-violence, which our mainstream media do not dare repeat over and over again.

We do not have Martin among us to guide us with his wisdom. But it is not hard to extrapolate from his "Beyond Vietnam" address of 1967 to what he would think about the Iraq morass.

He would say we have to treat with the Sunni Arabs and the Shiite Sadrists. We have to treat with the enemy. Not only for their sakes, for the sake of ruined cities like Fallujah and Tal Afar, and those to come-- but for our own sakes.

read it all at:

http://www.juancole.com/2006/01/10-things-martin-luther-king-would.html