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[To keep the ball rolling, I commented on the comments (140 of
them!). --CGE]<br>
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Editor, DI:<br>
<br>
I've taught at various universities in addition to the U of I for
forty years, so I shouldn't be as surprised as I am at the published
replies to the quite reasonable observations by Mr. David Green,
which appeared under the title "Block-I chant portrays ‘neither
patriotism nor remembrance’." The replies illustrate astonishing
ignorance, proto-fascist attitudes, and a distressing inability to
use a spell-checker. <br>
<br>
They might serve as the text for a seminar in remedial political
education, if the history and political science departments were up
to such a thing. The writers may know that there's a war on, but
they certainly know little about it. <br>
<br>
The Obama administration is actively killing people in our name in
the Mideast. Most Americans are opposed to the war: recent polls
show more than 70% of us think that it's not worth the loss of life
- remarkably, because that's not an opinion we often hear in
Congress or the media.<br>
<br>
Whatever one might say about Obama's mendacious speech on August 31
- announcing a US "withdrawal" from Iraq - it did acknowledge the
connection of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the US is also
killing people in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia - and threatens Iran.
<br>
<br>
The US is fighting a single war from Palestine to Pakistan, from the
Caspian Sea to the Horn of Africa. And it's not to "stop terrorism"
(or Al Qaeda) - as Mr. Obama has to say, because the only
constitutional authority he has for war is the October 2001 AUMF,
specifically directed against terrorism. <br>
<br>
The generation-long neo-colonial policy of the US is to exercise
control over Mideast energy resources. (Not because we need the oil
- the US imports very little oil from the Mideast - but in order to
give us an advantage over our economic rivals in Europe and Asia.)
Support - particularly mindless support - for this imperialist
enterprise should be condemned.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
C. G. Estabrook<br>
<br>
Visiting Lecturer<br>
109 Observatory <br>
244.4105<br>
<br>
On 9/20/10 12:24 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
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<div> --Jenifer<br>
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--- On <b>Mon, 9/20/10, David Green <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com"><davegreen84@yahoo.com></a></i></b>
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From: David Green <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com"><davegreen84@yahoo.com></a><br>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Letter in DI<br>
To: "Peace Discuss"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></a><br>
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 11:50 AM<br>
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<div>They repeated my first paragraph, obviously.</div>
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<div>This letter was in the DI last Thursday, but
for some reason the Comments didn't pick up
until this morning--I guess the students writing
were drunk for a long weekend.</div>
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<div>There is one supporter. I will be sending a
version to the News-Gazette, since the response
is bound to compete with letters pertaining to
the upcoming election.</div>
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<div>I'm also getting some articulate hate-mail
through my work and personal e-mails. </div>
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<div>DG</div>
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