Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking

Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...

Friday, October 9, 2009

Congratulations Barack, Now Get Out of Afghanistan

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Empires Strikes Back
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes
Political HumorRon Paul Interview
Posted by Philip Metres at 11:35 AM

4 comments:

Susan M. Schultz said...

Amen.

October 10, 2009 3:34 PM
Susan M. Schultz said...

Amen

October 10, 2009 3:35 PM
Philip Metres said...

Did I hear "Amen"? Must be preaching to the choir again!

October 10, 2009 5:15 PM
John JC Burroughs said...

And don't just move the war to Pakistan, Iran, or....

October 11, 2009 6:27 AM

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

facebook followers

Follow this blog

Followers

Site Meter (the Obama Years)

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2009 (277)
    • ►  December (5)
      • "Poems Can Stop Bulldozers." Thus Saith John Kins...
      • "Tuneup" by the Student Poets of John Carroll Univ...
      • The Surge (of Empire?): Jon Stewart and Ralph Nade...
      • TO SEE THE EARTH in its second printing
      • The Use of Poetry Readings (1)
    • ►  November (16)
      • Mandates from the Masses: Or, A Monty Python Break...
      • Philip Levine on Robert Lowell and John Berryman a...
      • Thanksgiving/Trees
      • Kim Jensen's "Song of Qana"
      • Remembering the Jesuit Martyrs
      • Celestial Poets vs. Prophetic Poets: Pablo Neruda ...
      • Cost of Empire: $130 billion for occupying Iraq an...
      • Najla Said, The Daughter of Edward Said, on Going ...
      • Shout-Out to Come Together: Imagine Peace (poems)
      • Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall: Berli...
      • The Fall of the (Berlin) Wall, Twenty Years Later
      • Fort Hood and PTSD
      • National War Tax Resistance Gathering (+ poetry!)
      • Julia Paulet's version of Carl Sandburg's "Autumn ...
      • Pablo Neruda Explains a Few Things
      • Veterans for Peace To Commemorate Veterans Day
    • ▼  October (18)
      • Jon Stewart, You've Done It Again: Thanks for Inte...
      • Ali Abunimah, on "Why I Disrupted Olmert"
      • Philip Metres & Master Poets' class at Avon Lake L...
      • Chicago Youth Poets Rage Against the Dying of the ...
      • A J Street Poetry Reading Cancelled: More on Poetr...
      • Creating a Culture of Peace (workshop)
      • Afghanistan: The Haunted House Telling Us to Get O...
      • White, including Middle Eastern
      • John Roche's "Baghdad Boogaloo"
      • Congratulations Barack, Now Get Out of Afghanistan...
      • Bruce Weigl's "Oh Nature" & Split This Rock inform...
      • 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD: street performance by Jennif...
      • Where are the Mekons of Yesteryear? Rock and Comm...
      • "In a Beautiful Country": Prufer on Love in a Time...
      • Can the Muppets Make Friends in Ramallah? by Saman...
      • This was sent to me by a former soldier.
      • Happy Birthday, Gandhi
      • Mary Biddinger at John Carroll: A Reading
    • ►  September (24)
      • What Do the Chinese Think of Michael Jackson? (Tr...
      • Poet Kazim Ali at John Carroll University: A Readi...
      • On Sumud (Steadfastness)
      • Help Protect Big Insurance
      • Michael Leong's e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009)
      • Jim Carroll, "The Baskbetball Diaries," Violence, ...
      • Think of Empire as a Video Game
      • Alison Weir on Israel-Palestine Coming to Clevelan...
      • Attention Span 2009: Poetry That Stayed With Me
      • Son Volt's "Jet Pilot"/How Was it We Elected Bush ...
      • Rachel Loden's "The Toy Box of My Intentions"
    • ►  August (13)
    • ►  July (17)
    • ►  June (27)
    • ►  May (16)
    • ►  April (26)
    • ►  March (30)
    • ►  February (29)
    • ►  January (56)
  • ►  2008 (346)
    • ►  December (25)
    • ►  November (26)
    • ►  October (32)
    • ►  September (25)
    • ►  August (24)
    • ►  July (28)
    • ►  June (26)
    • ►  May (30)
    • ►  April (29)
    • ►  March (38)
    • ►  February (30)
    • ►  January (33)
  • ►  2007 (180)
    • ►  December (27)
    • ►  November (25)
    • ►  October (33)
    • ►  September (30)
    • ►  August (22)
    • ►  July (33)
    • ►  June (10)

About Me

My Photo
Philip Metres
Poetry books include *To See the Earth,* *Instants,* *Primer for Non-Native Speakers,* *Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein,* and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky*. Scholarship: *Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront Since 1941.*
View my complete profile

To See the Earth

To See the Earth
my latest book

Come Together: Imagine Peace

Come Together: Imagine Peace
An Anthology of Peace Poems

Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront

Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront

Instants

Instants

Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein

Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein

A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky

A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky

My homepage

  • http://www.philipmetres.com

My Blog List

  • {LIME TREE}
    Abraham Lincoln #5
    59 minutes ago
  • Detainees
    The Devil and Mr. Obama
    1 hour ago
  • Charles Bernstein Web Log
    Marjoire Perloff on Close Listening
    2 hours ago
  • Squandermania and other foibles
    Another Installment of... Of Being Quiet: On Bridges, Modernism, and Experimentation
    2 hours ago
  • DAVID-BAPTISTE CHIROT
    Milwaukee Event Wedn. 7pm: Human Rights in Venezuela, with author Gregory Wilpert
    6 hours ago
  • Sabbah's Blog
    Tweet Digest for 2009-12-08
    7 hours ago
  • Nothing to Say & Saying It
    John Lennon Live Concert at Madison Square Garden (New York, NY) Aug 30, 1972 - WolfgangsVault.com
    8 hours ago
  • Poetry & Popular Culture
    Limericks, Stereoview Cards, and Popular Precedents to Marcel Duchamp
    9 hours ago
  • CoalMountain’s Blog
    Dead miner named
    15 hours ago
  • Modern Americans
    Current Mood:
    15 hours ago
  • Nomadics
    Juan Cole’s Top Ten Questions for Copenhagen
    17 hours ago
  • KABOBfest
    H1N1 Hits Gaza
    1 day ago
  • Velveteen Rabbi
    On naming our son
    1 day ago
  • Silliman's Blog
    2 days ago
  • Al Filreis
    PoemTalk update
    2 days ago
  • A Burning Patience
    Cave paintings, Sharon Doubiago memoir, and other news
    2 days ago
  • Samizdat Blog
    Black Dog's Bedside Manner
    2 days ago
  • Tinfish Editor's Blog
    Blogging (with) Tyrone Williams, _On Spec_
    3 days ago
  • refried ORACLE phone
    cris cheek on Performance Writing
    4 days ago
  • Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice
    "What the Living Do"
    5 days ago
  • Absinthe Minded
    Absinthe 12 and ALANDIA
    1 week ago
  • Avoiding the Muse
    Chasing Summer
    1 week ago
  • Cahiers de Corey
    Eckhart Tolle IS John Ashbery
    2 weeks ago
  • Long Beers In Tiltonsville
    Party in the S my D
    3 weeks ago
  • The Politics of Hope | Mark Braverman
    The Politics of Despair
    3 weeks ago
  • Salam+Shalom
    Israel EXPANDING settlements
    3 weeks ago
  • Paul Hoover's Poetry Blog
    Stephen Ratcliffe: Reading the Unseen
    3 weeks ago
  • accommodatingly
    a new story
    3 weeks ago
  • Stalactite Chandelier
    WALLS (ANAMNESES) by Marcel Cohen (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, 2009)
    4 weeks ago
  • cynthiacruz
    Elizabeth Huey
    1 month ago
  • Body on the Line
    on hiatus
    2 months ago
  • Marek naja Marek
    More on google Settlement
    3 months ago
  • Poetry, Politics, Collapse
    Awesome University Jobs Fall from Heaven Like Rain pt. 2
    7 months ago
  • Nomadics
    Switching to Wordpress
    9 months ago
  • heuriskein / ευρισκειν
    xmas wishes
    11 months ago
  • Live Write
    Images of the Peace Mural Created by the artist Huong
    11 months ago
  • Blogger: Login to read