March 7
GUEST: Ann Wright, author,
retired United States Army colonel, and former US diplomat who
resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the invasion of Iraq,
talks about genocide and Palestinian liberation.
Why
Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War?
Ann Wright has seen a great deal of US foreign policy up close. But she is also clear about what she didn't see in the Army as well as in the diplomatic core. She was never involved in coups or assassination attempts. And when she was confronted with ethical choices, she resigned from working with the US State Department. The invasion of Iraq was one lie too many.
Ann brings a real sense of realism to how the United States operates in the rest of the world. Take the genocide in Gaza. She knows that our country could demand that Israel stop starving Palestinian children to death. But all our political parties are already bought off by the Israel Lobby. All our politicians can talk, but they can't really act. It is an inability caused by the ruin of our democracy, which has been sold to the highest bidder. In this case it is the hundreds of millions that come from US weapons makers and from Israel. It is a cesspool, toxic to the thousands of Palestinian children who will wither away and die in their obliterated world.
Wouldn't it be amazing if our politician class included people like Ann Wright? Real people who refuse to murder civilians for profit.
