<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">PERFECT, Bob. I've plagiarized (and paraphrased) yr paragraph in my latest msg to the WH. Many thanks.<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 8/11/10, Robert <span>Naiman</span> <i><naiman.uiuc@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama's Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, But Not Flood Relief<br>To: "David Green" <davegreen84@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 2:20 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Personally, I have no objection to "militant Islamist groups" doing<br>disaster relief. I was trying to provoke the liberals who do to pay<br>more attention to the likely consequences of anemic U.S.
action in<br>response to the disaster.<br><br>On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, David Green <<a ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> But Bob, why should the Muslim world feel any differently, no matter what the<br>> U.S. does? Clearly, the Islamist militants do care more about Muslims; indeed,<br>> apart from quibbles about whether they care more about Muslims or Islam,<br>> or "radical" Islam, it's just axiomatic. There the ones who live there.<br>><br>> DG<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> ----- Original Message ----<br>> From: Robert Naiman <<a ymailto="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=naiman.uiuc@gmail.com">naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</a>><br>> To: Peace-discuss List <<a ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
href="/mc/compose?to=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>> Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 1:40:35 PM<br>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama's Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, But Not<br>> Flood Relief<br>><br>> "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel said,<br>> correctly. But if the White House does not prominently, quickly and<br>> decisively bring all assets to bear in response to the flood crisis in<br>> Pakistan, it will be letting a serious crisis go to waste. It will be<br>> passing up an opportunity to show the Muslim world that the United<br>> States cares more about saving Muslim lives than taking them away. It<br>> will be passing up a unique opportunity to reframe and de-escalate the<br>> conflict in Afghanistan. It will be crying "Uncle" to Islamist<br>> militants in Pakistan, who in the battle for flood relief, are<br>> cleaning our
clocks.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obamas-pakistan-katrina-h_b_678755.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obamas-pakistan-katrina-h_b_678755.html</a><br>><br>><br>> <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/11/134653/210" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/11/134653/210</a><br>><br>> <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/670" target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/670</a><br>><br>> --<br>> Robert Naiman<br>> Policy Director<br>> Just Foreign Policy<br>> www.justforeignpolicy.org<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" href="/mc/compose?to=naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>><br>> Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan<br>> <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern"
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