[Peace-discuss] 90%

[Morton K. Brussel]

I guess I'll weigh in as well. I too made some suggestions for Carl  
and his flyer which he did not accept, but I think the flyer on the  
whole is well worth promulgating, even if if contains  a few  
peremptory (polemical?) statements that one could justifiably argue  
about.

Let's move on.

Mort

On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:17 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> Regarding the next-to-last paragraph of the flyer, Bob, I don't  
> think much of your suggestion that I purposely "submitted [it] too  
> late for consideration at an AWARE meeting" in order to avoid your  
> withering criticism, the substance of which seems to be "What is  
> going on in the Middle East is much more complicated than the  
> economics [sic]."
>
> Should the offending paragraph have been rewritten as follows?
>
> "The corporate economy drives America's criminal wars and  
> occupations in the Middle East.  Both Democratic and Republican  
> administrations demand that the US control Middle East energy  
> resources -- even though we import very little oil from the Middle  
> East for use in the US -- because that gives the US control over  
> America's principal economic competitors, Europe and northeast Asia  
> (China, South Korea and Japan). But what is going on in the Middle  
> East is much more complicated than the economics."
>
>
> Bob Illyes wrote:
>> We don't have anything like 90%, Jan, because few people have
>> posted to the AWARE list on the issue of the flyer. I believe
>> they are just Ricky (go with it), you (same reservations as me,
>> but not willing to block), Carl (go with it), and me (blocking).
>> Bob
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