[Peace-discuss] Carl's LTE in the NG last Thursday

[Randall Cotton]

Here is what appeared in last Thursday's News-Gazette, thanks to Carl's
persistent efforts. This article inspired a new face to attend at our
meeting last Sunday.

Obama's killings continue U.S. policy
Thursday April 16, 2009

Barack Obama should stop killing people. We seem to think that because
someone becomes head of government - particularly the U.S. government - he
can order killing without being liable for murder.

That excuse is not accepted by the million people driven from their homes
in northwest Pakistan by terror attacks by missiles from unmanned American
aircraft - ordered by Mr. Obama at a rate much greater than that employed
by the Bush administration - and attacks by the Pakistani army, demanded
by Obama's minion, Richard Holbrooke. It's not accepted in the rest of the
world, and it should not be accepted by us.

Meanwhile, killing ordered by this administration goes on throughout the
Middle East, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus Valley, and from the
Caspian Sea to the Horn of Africa. Obama claims to be "stopping
terrorism," but the world knows that that is a contemptible excuse.

The U.S. is instead insisting on control of the Mideast - the source of
two-thirds of the world's gas and oil. And not because we need it for
ourselves - the U.S. imports very little oil from the Mideast, in spite of
the propaganda claims - but because it provides what Obama's foreign
policy advisers call "critical leverage" over the countries in Europe and
Asia, who are our main economic rivals.

Obama's killings continue that constant American policy, which has
remained the same in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Only
the pretenses have changed.

C. G. ESTABROOK
Champaign