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That "racist war" slogan is the one that cracks me up the most. Just which "race" do these people think we are being "racist" against?

The Arab race? Well are we bombing Saudi Arabia?

How about the "Afghan race" (if such a concept exists)? But how does attacking the despotic government which is subjugating the Afghans count as "racism against Afghans"? That's like saying that bombing Hitler's government was anti-Semitic because Jews may have died in the process.

I just don't understand what these people think they are saying by calling it a "racist war". I really don't.

I just don't understand what these people think they are saying by calling it a "racist war". I really don't.

It is difficult trying to figure this stuff out. I have tried to understand it as well and the arguments don't really follow logic. In most cases I can usually "see" the other side even though I disagree but many of the peace arguments are just naive. Some are just psychotic. Even the liberals seem to be on-board with the current action but there are some that just seem so far out there isn't another way I can describe them.

I think these people see the U.S. as white and everyone else as non-white and then they jump to the belief that the U.S. engages in war because non-U.S. people are not white. It appears that those that call the war "racist" believe that any war the U.S. engages in is racist unless we were to engage in a war with Britain or maybe Germany.

It is likely that pointing to the number of non-whites citizens in the U.S. would not be convincing to them. These people likely are so filled with hatred towards whites and our system of government that any evidence would simply be discounted.

Here is an excerpt that I found on an anti war website: http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=104035

"An African-American man who works on gentrification issues in West Oakland said that "we're always seeing Americans drop bombs on people. We watch the Vietnamese get bombed, Iraqis get bombed, Palestinians get bombed, now it has come home to roost." Japanese-Americans spoke about internment camps and the nuclear holocaust brought on by US militarism."

I think that the word "racist" is the most emotionally charged word they can think of, at least for them. To call someone "racist" is the very worst thing you can say about that person. Ditto, for war.

These leftists seem to see everyone as part of group first and then maybe later as an individual. I think they assume everyone else has this pattern of thinking too. It is kind of weird.