Letters to the Editor
Arthur C. Hurwitz
Published Letters: 43 Editor's Choice: 14
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Not who he is but what he does...
[Read the article: The scruffy charms of an insecure president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Editor:
The debate on Bush's personality is irrelevant. He can and should be judged on one thing: the disasterous policies of his administration and their implications for us, most people, and the world.
I have no way of knowing if W. is an intellegent person or not, a nice person or not, an affible person or not. Nevertheless, I do know what his administration has done to our country, to the Middle East, and to the world, and he and his administration have created a very dangerous situation for the geopolitics of the Middle East, for the precariousness of the U.S. economy and by extension, the world economy.
The one characteristic of Bush's life that is both unusual and certainly not ordinary is that he has never had to deal with, care about, or suffer the implications of his mistakes. A person with such privilege, ecomonic or otherwise, who has the luxury or playing in business and politics, certainly has no business making decisions which affect all of our lives.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur C. Hurwitz
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Midevil Thinking
[Read the article: American war culture in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Editor:
It is so ironic that the likes of Kagan and Kristol see the United States as a progressive, modernizing force in the world while, at the same time, advocating and practicing notions of war and soldiering that are now completely discredited in "Old Europe." I mean, specifically, that people of lower classes should not only fight wars, but should also be considered cannon fodder for "greater causes" for that, apparently, they are apparently too invaluable to experience to horror of battle and risk their lives. Or, to put it another way, everyone has their own role in the glory of the greater revolution, Kagen, Kristol etc. have the role as the philosopher/policy-makers who can determine the glorious meaning of the death of other people, just not anyone they know or are in their own families.
In no other country in the Western World could any mainstream element of the political intellegensia advocate endless wars fought by everyone but themselves. It is a sign of the now backwardness of the United States that such people could have acquired so much power and influence over actual policy.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur C. Hurwitz
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No Enforcement Mechanism..
[Read the article: The agonizing truth about CIA renditions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Editor:
The revalation that the US government has kidnapped people, and then sent them to other countries to be tortured, is not only abhorrent, but also shows a very strong weakness in our country's system-of-government and the absolute ineptitude of those always vaunted but rarely effective, "checks and balances."
The fact that the Bush Administration could do such a thing, and the fact that it could be done in complete secret, without any sort of oversight or immediate revalation, means that something is certainly rotten, not only in our present presidential administration, but also in our country's actual governmental system.
Even worse, there is no judicial mechanism through which those ultmately responsible for these actions can be punished.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur C. Hurwitz
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The Shortcomings of ID?
[Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Editor:
The "Scientific Creation" movement has nothing to offer in support of its position. It tries to and sometimes does find flaws with the theory of evolution and then, surprise surprise, it deduces that there was a "designer," i.e. God.
They offer no evidence to support their position other than faith, directly or indirectly. They can not prove that there was a "designer" and they can explain how the world was created via any means other than through belief without a rational explaination.
The point being that their entire theory and position is really not a theory of its own but an anti-evolution position. Evolution can not be true, they say, so therefore, the world was created.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur C. Hurwitz