[Peace-discuss] Fwd: RE: Submission for Commentary on WILL-580

[David Green]

Here is Ali Kawa's response to my submission--not too
surprising, unfortunately.

--- "Kawa, Ali" <kawa at WILL.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> From: "Kawa, Ali" <kawa at WILL.uiuc.edu>
> To: 'David Green' <davegreen48 at yahoo.com>
> CC: "Pearce, Jay" <jhpearce at WILL.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: RE: Submission for Commentary on WILL-580
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:41:52 -0500
> 
> David, 
> 
> Thank you for your commentary submission.  Because
> we are trying to keep
> commentaries geared to issues involving our region
> and of clearly local
> relevance, I would suggest you submit this
> commentary to NPR for national
> consideration.
> 
> I have copied instructions from the NPR website
> below.  
> 
> Again, thanks for your interest!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ali Kawa
> WILL AM 580
> 300 N. Goodwin Ave.
> Urbana, IL  61801
> 
> http://www.npr.org/about/pitch/
> 
> How do I submit a commentary or essay?
> We are looking for commentaries or essays that tell
> a tale, reveal a
> personal reflection, or add an informed perspective
> to events in the news.
> We want pieces that express an original idea with
> clear, creative writing.
> While many essays are from regularly scheduled
> commentators, we also want to
> hear from people who can comment on a once-only
> basis.
> 
> Here are some guidelines:
> 
> * Send one or two written commentaries in the body
> of the e-mail. Because of
> security and virus concerns, we are unable to open
> e-mails with attachments.
> 
> * Each commentary should take about two-and-a-half
> minutes to read aloud
> (about 300 words in length).
> * Please include your name, address, daytime
> telephone number, and e-mail
> address.
> 
> Send your commentary (with the word "Commentary
> Submission" in the subject
> line) to Morning Edition: mecommentary at npr.org, All
> Things Considered:
> atccommentary at npr.org or The Tavis Smiley Show's
> Sheryl Flowers
> (sflowers at npr.org)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Green [mailto:davegreen48 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 9:31 PM
> To: kawa at will.uiuc.edu
> Cc: jhpearce at will.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Submission for Commentary on WILL-580
> 
> 
> Subsequent to interactions with Randall Cotton, I
> would like to submit the following commentary for
> consideration on behalf of AWARE, the Anti-War
> Anti-Racism Effort:
> 
>      As local men and women in our military continue
> to sacrifice for our government's "war on
> terrorism,"
> it is vital to place the events of 9/11 and our
> subsequent wars in historical context. But this past
> March 15th, NPR's Morning Edition aired a commentary
> by Ruben Navarette titled "Enough with Vietnam."
> Navarette claimed that reflecting on our experience
> in
> Vietnam is irrelevant to preventing a future attack
> on
> our soil.
> 
>      Indeed, he expressed no interest in any of the
> historical context relevant to an understanding of
> terrorism as a response-however immoral--to U.S.
> foreign policy. This imperial history broadly
> includes
> U.S. relations with both Latin America and Asia, but
> at the very least must consider U.S. policies in the
> Middle East since World War II that have
> consistently
> viewed the people of that region as pawns in the
> service of American interests. These interests
> translate into control over the region's oil
> resources. Uncensored and unflattering historical
> perspectives are vital for an understanding of the
> continuities of U.S. foreign policy, and the
> consistently aggressive actions by leaders of both
> parties that-until 9/11-had not resulted in an
> attack
> within our borders.
> 
>      George Bush and John Kerry share this
> historical
> myopia. Bush has repeated the deceptions and
> illegality of the Vietnam War in Iraq. Meanwhile
> Kerry
> writes in A Call to Service  "it's time to recognize
> (Vietnam) as an exception, not a ruling example, of
> the U.S. military engagements of the twentieth
> century." But I would assert that the key to
> understanding Vietnam is as the most egregious
> example
> of the rule that the U.S. is willing to use force
> against any country whose popular aspirations
> threaten
> the interests and profits of U.S.-centered global
> corporate capitalism. Since World War II, this rule
> has been applied with bloody results in Iran,
> Guatemala, the Congo, Indonesia, Chile, Angola,
> Nicaragua, and elsewhere.
> 
>      We all want to avoid the pain of another event
> like 9/11. But to do so we must critically examine
> the
> continuities of our history-including Iraq-and then
> fundamentally change coercive U.S. foreign policies.
> It is my view, on behalf of the Anti-war Anti-racism
> Effort, that continued denial of our problematic
> past
> and present only makes future attacks more likely.
> 
> David Green
> 2709 Lakeview Drive
> Champaign
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> 
> davegreen48 at yahoo.com
> dlgreen at uiuc.edu
> 
> 
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