A Note About the Video by Howard Lisnoff
When I made the video about my peace flag, I did not comment on September 11, 2001. That was an oversight. The attacks of that day were terror attacks against a largely civilian population, something long banned in international law, the rules of war. The history of US involvement in Afghanistan, particularly the US involvement in supporting the mujahideen, the precursors to the Taliban and then Al Qaeda, and its notorious murderer, Osama bin Laden, was a move in opposition to the then-Soviet war there.
A group formed in Rhode Island, a peace group, supported by many socialists from Brown University and others, folded their tents and vanished into the night when support for the war in Afghanistan increased. Much could be said about the failed US attempt to apprehend bin Laden early in the war, and how that war turned into an endless war. That George W. Bush turned that war into an attack on civil liberties through the Patriot Act such as the right to privacy in the Constitution, only ratcheted up with the explosion of the Internet. The government now knows everything about us, particularly on the left, and we know nothing about them.
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