[Peace-discuss] (no subject)

[C. G. Estabrook]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Susan Davis wrote:

> ...Tom Delay is an opportunist and not to be trusted.  If he declared
> himself against the war tomorrow, for humanitarian and international
> justice reasons, I still wouldn't give him a quarter for his parking
> meter...

I'm not sure what you see as the political significance of this
observation, Susan.  There are those whose antipathy to DeLay is so great
that they've implied that they'd be against anything that he is for, and I
know you don't mean that regarding the war.  But I'd suggest that the only
way to end the war is getting opportunists in government like DeLay to
declare themselves against it, because of public pressure.  That's how the
Vietnam War ended -- not by replacing the DeLays of those days with
non-opportunists who could be trusted.  That didn't happen. --CGE