<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Maybe not: <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/trump-hints-ending-us-aid-support-syrian-militant-groups/" class="">https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/trump-hints-ending-us-aid-support-syrian-militant-groups/</a><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 12, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Dear Carl: Having read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal yesterday and today:It looks like Trump has already been captured...<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: C. G. Estabrook [<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com" class="">mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>] <br class="">Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 12:41 PM<br class="">To: Boyle, Francis A <<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu" class="">fboyle@illinois.edu</a>><br class="">Cc: <a href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net" class="">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>; <a href="mailto:futureup2us@gmail.com" class="">futureup2us@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu" class="">a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>; Hoffman, Valerie J <<a href="mailto:vhoffman@illinois.edu" class="">vhoffman@illinois.edu</a>>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <<a href="mailto:jtmiller@illinois.edu" class="">jtmiller@illinois.edu</a>>; Szoke, Ron <<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu" class="">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>>; <a href="mailto:sherwoodross10@gmail.com" class="">sherwoodross10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:a23h23@yahoo.com" class="">a23h23@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com" class="">davidcnswanson@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:abass10@gmail.com" class="">abass10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:davetrippel@ameritech.net" class="">davetrippel@ameritech.net</a>; <a href="mailto:mickalideh@gmail.com" class="">mickalideh@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:lina@worldcantwait.net" class="">lina@worldcantwait.net</a>; <a href="mailto:chicago@worldcantwait.net" class="">chicago@worldcantwait.net</a>; Mildred O'brien <<a href="mailto:moboct1@aim.com" class="">moboct1@aim.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net</a><br class="">Subject: Re: Donald Trump May Select an Architect of Bush's Torture Program to Run CIA<br class=""><br class="">As Mark Twain is supposed to have said, history doesn't repeat itself - but it does rhyme.<br class=""><br class="">In the decline of the American Empire, underway since its peak in 1945, our rulers have consciously substituted military repression for world-wide economic development, especially in regard to Eurasia. They've protected the profits of the 1% and - particularly since the 1970s - encouraged the increasing (and accelerating) concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people.<br class=""><br class="">Our choice is to stand with that - and hope it's done nicely, without unnecessary killing - or oppose it, with the majority of the population of our country and the world.<br class=""><br class="">Today, we need to begin by working to see that the Trump administration is not captured by the neoliberals and neoconservatives who have dominated all recent administrations, including particularly Obama's. <br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>