A pair of U.S. Navy F-14B Tomcats soar over the Iraqi landscape after refueling from an Air Force KC-10 from the 908 Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron on July 4, 2004. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Shaun Withers, U.S. Air Force. (Released) “The tens of millions of war-protesters who blossomed on the world's Main Streets like belated spring flowers, days before the war on Iraq, did not look alike, speak the same language, belong to the same culture or religion, read the same papers, watch the same TV news or hold the same political thought. But, they were all motivated by a far grander and more noble cause than mere opposition to yet another war on a battered nation of the South: they shared the ideal of resisting empire.
“Perhaps the fervor and intensity of protest have relatively waned since the images of the "sweeping victory" over Iraq, carried by not-so-free western media, inundated us. But after the US war crimes in Falluja, the racist torture orgy at Abu Ghraib and the wedding massacre were revealed, the motivation for resisting empire is on the rise again, globally. This essay goes back and explores the formative stage of this resistance: the critical period before and right after the start of the war on Iraq, arguing that such a resistance is not just ethically laudable, but also practically winnable.”
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