Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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There is a chance...
[Read the article: My mother's dying words were, "You'll never be good enough"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... that you are reading something into what your new boss is saying that isn't there. Your boss might actually want you to be good enough to take her job when she gets promoted, and keep you with her all the way to the top, in which case your modesty isn't making things go smoother it's pissing her off.
What you might be reading as being feeling threatened might be your boss feeling exasperated - because you are good enough to move up in the job and that, to your supervisor, means that she has done a good job in training you.
If you are an excellent worker you have the right to be confident. Confidence is only a bad thing when it is unearned, and if you are earning praise for your work you have earned a degree of confidence.
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captcrisis, two songs just to illustrate a point.
[Read the article: "I'm Not There"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This
My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
People carry roses,
Make promises by the hours,
My love she laughs like the flowers,
Valentines can't buy her.
In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.
Some speak of the future,
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.
The cloak and dagger dangles,
Madams light the candles.
In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Statues made of match sticks,
Crumble into one another,
My love winks, she does not bother,
She knows too much to argue or to judge.
The bridge at midnight trembles,
The country doctor rambles,
Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
The wind howls like a hammer,
The night blows cold and rainy,
My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing.
Versus this:
Well, its one for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, cat, go.
But dont you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
Well, you can knock me down,
Step in my face,
Slander my name
All over the place.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Dont you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
You can burn my house,
Steal my car,
Drink my liquor
From an old fruitjar.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Dont you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
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deathkit
[Read the article: The Democrats' foreign (policy) wars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, but then she voted to declare Iran's lawfully constituted military a terrorist organisation - unprecedented in world history - on the testimony of the same guys that lied you into Iraq.
She ain't exactly demonstrating a propensity for learning from her mistakes.
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Biden isn't any better then the rest of them.
[Read the article: Biden calls himself "the odd man out" among '08 Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The whole "peace" wing crap simply shows that he is yet another Democrat who thinks the key to success is to ignore the people who were right about Iraq in the first place.
Further, his statements on the inter-related nature of foreign policy isn't actually a policy, its just how the world works and is a dodge for coming up with anything concrete on specific cases.
If you withdraw will things get better? No, but at least you won't be saddled with paying to occupy the place as things deteriorate anyway.
America's presence in Iraq is not successfully preventing a regional war (As the Turkish government can attest) and your treasury is being spent on something meaningless when what you really need is to spend more money on your internal problems.
Much as America's policies with other countries are inter-related so your policies at home influence your choices abroad. You do not have the money to continue the Iraq war, and that is a situation which is only going to get worse.
Withdrawal, as painful as it is going to be is not a choice born of not knowing what is going on in that region, it is a choice based on what is going on with the treasury.