Letters to the Editor
Retired Military Patriot
Published Letters: 2275 Editor's Choice: 11
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Glenn disagree and agree
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]“The only military assets consumed by Iraq are the Army and Marines. Our naval forces and air force are relatively free. Air attacks, naval blockades and aircraft carriers can do plenty of damage.”
Air Force resources are stretched more than the general public realizes. Military forces and resources move by air a lot because it is far faster than by sea. Air Force and Marine fighters off carriers are providing air-to-ground and close air support in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes a lot of resources in the region and Europe to keep operations going. Keeping carrier groups in the Persian Gulf also takes considerable manpower and resources. Where I agree, these forces are in place to attack Iran if ordered.
Due to the realities and results in Iraq, I would believe that there would be a sizable active duty uprising for anything but surgical strikes against nuclear facilities and I think there would be sizable reluctance to even do that because of the likelihood of a much larger conflict. Of course, with the zanies in our government, anything is possible.
A while back, I pointed out that Chris Mathews on Hardball was strongly against any attack on Iran from the moment of the Presidents State of the Union Address and junior’s comments on Iran. Either you or some other blogger should try to get on his show. Even though many appear to pretty much despise his show, it would provide a degree of visibility that your and other “liberal” views have earned and our nation vitally needs.
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Bebop, feelins mutual
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I’d like to throw down with you too. I spent way to much time in the O’Club and not near enough time at your enlisted clubs. Somehow, I always felt a lot more relaxed and with my peeps when around guys like you than most of my stuffy officer peers who were too worried about advancement and showing off. The generals I worked for were two kinds, marvelous humane leaders or stupid, inhumane rearends, kinda like almost everyone around our smelly pres.
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William Timberman re: inevitable nightmares
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our military is stretched so thin already and I agree with your outline of the rest of the Iran and world nightmares that I just can’t see our military or congress possibly letting it happen (again). Of course I was wrong in 2002 about the very weak opposition from my congressional Democrats, our M$M and those foreign affairs experts who seemed to understand Middle East culture and politics to stop such a ill-advised course.
It was exemplified by Tom Friedman on NPR today when he said we need collaboration with elements in Iraq to get a political solution and then kept saying that invasion and occupation by us was the kind of collaboration that was needed to bring the changes in rights and freedom that young Muslims were seeking. He simply felt that we screwed up our operations after the invasion and didn’t seem to feel change through oppressive force was wrong. How can such an intelligent and seemingly caring person be so callous and heartless? We have to keep looking for the answer if we are ever going to get through to some of these weird thinking intellectuals.
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Freedom with windex act?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that anything like German community law that requires you to clean daily your steps and everything up to the middle of your street ?
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@Chris C, not an easy promotion
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]“To me, the value of what is happening on this blog, and on many others, is to articulate the injustice and to promote its correction as best we all can. I cannot merely read Mr. Greenwald's commentary (brilliant as it is) without extending his message to as many as I can.”
If as Joe Public, I had not read lengthy M$M stories or excellent blogs like Glenn’s, I would think the following about the conviction of Padilla:
He is extremely stupid and inept and couldn’t even light his shoe.
He is very gullible and a traitor to join the terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans.
Who cares where he was held. He was clearly guilty; didn’t they catch him in the act?
I guess it’s right to give him a jury trial, but I’m sure not surprised they found the bastard guilty.
To change that kind of thinking is not easy. Joe Public will not see themselves in Padilla’s shoes, especially since they have blamed him for the times they had to remove theirs at the airport, so they won’t associate well with their liberties being violated. The best bet is to stress the torture, probable mental illness and how little of a threat he actually posed and that is why Padilla did this terrible thing. That could help Joe Public understand how unfair “justice” and violation of civil liberties can result in spending the rest of your life behind bars when you really weren’t capable of understanding why what you did was so wrong.
Chances are many of your friends Chris are not Joe Public types. We won’t get much traction on this issue without finding a way to reach the Joes and Janes.
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Bebop-o lovely choice bats
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bats are wonderful, mostly gentle creatures. But because they like to hang upside down when resting or sleeping and love the dark and some need blood to live, we humans have to hate and kill them. Easy to hate, not so easy to kill unless you gas or machine-gun them.
Jose Padilla found a strange lonely path because society alienated him and then the goons to prove their prowess at catching those “vile” terrorists especially a home grown one, attacked without mercy just like bat killers. If these goons had any ability to express any honest feelings for the plight of others, they could learn to love any creature, any size, any shape, any color, with any strange ways. Strange, different and new always attracts me as it does you. These goons sure miss out on a lot, don’t they.
Safe trip whenever you launch.