[Peace-discuss] Obama's Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, But Not Flood Relief

[Jenifer Cartwright]

PERFECT, Bob. I've plagiarized (and paraphrased) yr paragraph in my latest msg to the WH. Many thanks. --Jenifer

--- On Wed, 8/11/10, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama's Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, But Not Flood Relief
To: "David Green" <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 2:20 PM

Personally, I have no objection to "militant Islamist groups" doing
disaster relief. I was trying to provoke the liberals who do to pay
more attention to the likely consequences of anemic U.S. action in
response to the disaster.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But Bob, why should the Muslim world feel any differently, no matter what the
> U.S. does? Clearly, the Islamist militants do care more about Muslims; indeed,
> apart from quibbles about whether they care more about Muslims or Islam,
> or "radical" Islam, it's just axiomatic. There the ones who live there.
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> DG
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
> To: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 1:40:35 PM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama's Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, But Not
> Flood Relief
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> "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel said,
> correctly. But if the White House does not prominently, quickly and
> decisively bring all assets to bear in response to the flood crisis in
> Pakistan, it will be letting a serious crisis go to waste. It will be
> passing up an opportunity to show the Muslim world that the United
> States cares more about saving Muslim lives than taking them away. It
> will be passing up a unique opportunity to reframe and de-escalate the
> conflict in Afghanistan. It will be crying "Uncle" to Islamist
> militants in Pakistan, who in the battle for flood relief, are
> cleaning our clocks.
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obamas-pakistan-katrina-h_b_678755.html
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> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/11/134653/210
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> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/670
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