Keith
Ellison, the Black U.S. House member from Minneapolis who is co-chair
of the Progressive Caucus, says the U.S. should push for a no-fly zone
over rebel-held areas in Syria. Ellison, who is also one of only two
Muslim members of Congress, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
on Sunday, as did Republican Arizona Senator John McCain. It is a
measure of how far to the right the Democratic Party has come under
President Obama, that McCain,
the war monger who likes to sing about bombing Iran, and Ellison, who
claims to be a progressive, are in basic agreement over Syria. Both
McCain and Ellison want no-fly zones, and both claim to prefer that
there be no U.S. “boots on the ground” in country. Both are raving
American imperialists who believe that the U.S. has not merely the
right, but the obligation to intervene in the internal affairs of other
countries. As Ellison, the phony progressive, puts it, “I
don’t think the world’s greatest superpower, the United States, can
stand by and do nothing” – which is, essentially, John McCain’s
position.
-- Glen Ford, "Rep. Keith Ellison, the Personification of the Phony, Pro-War 'Progressive'" (Black Agenda Report).
