[Peace-discuss] letter to NPR

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ricky, who was the interviewee?  Not Niall Fergsuon, was it?  (A Brit
"historian of empire" who's all over the media with an
imperialism-is-good-for-everybody message.) --CGE


On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Ricky Baldwin wrote:

> [In case you didn't hear Weekend Edition yesterday morning, there was
> a disgusting piece of pro-war propaganda masquerading as an interview
> with a historian of various "liberations".  It could have been
> straight out of the Council on Foreign Relations newsletter.  I tried
> to keep my letter short and relatively civil, but you should have
> heard this guy prattle on about how liberated peoples always resent
> their liberators because of the humiliation, etc., etc.  The question,
> of course, was why so many Iraqis want US forces out of their country.  
> His answer, basically, was they don't - they just resent that they
> needed us, just like the French did after WWII.  You had to hear it to
> believe it.  Anyway, I'm sharing my letter in hopes of convincing any
> potential letter writers that it's easy and you don't have to even
> have an impressive analysis to write a letter. - RB]
> 
> Dear Weekend Edition:
> 
> Your interview with a ‘liberation’ historian this Saturday April 26
> was worthy of George Orwell’s best work.  Never have I heard more
> tortured logic and courageous lies of omission.  To equate the
> so-called “liberation” of Iraq with the liberation of France after the
> German occupation is truly to stand history on its head.  The US,
> after all, invaded Iraq and overthrew its government without
> provocation, which was listed as a war crime at the famous Nuremburg
> Trials.  But, of course, war supporters have to come up with some
> explanation for the growing protests in Iraq against the US
> occupation.
> 
> Please try to be a little more critical in the future.
> 
> Sincerely, Ricky Baldwin 217-356-2205
>