Letters to the Editor
msmihai
Published Letters: 3
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What is Kiev or Moscow doing about this?
[Read the article: "They didn't see us as humans"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Russian and Ukrainian mobs who are engaged in this are selling the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers of their countries into sex slavery. This is pure evil at work. And what are the governments of these "supply" countries doing about it? If they're too chicken to take on the mobs directly, why not launch massive information/education campaigns aimed at young women to warn them of the dangers of traveling to certain countries under any circumstances? Why not work vigorously with the Turks and others to track down the criminals and their victims? I could go on and on. I've been following this issue for several years, and the complacency of the powers that be in Moscow and Kiev and Vilnius and Sofia is maddening.
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There's something about Mitt
[Read the article: The godawful GOP debate ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]During the "exchange" with Rudy over immigration and "sanctuaries, Mitt referred to people with "funny accents" on his lawn and how he could not expected to check their papers.
Good grief, why hasn't the media picked up on this demeaning, racist remark of his? It is not normal for a candidate to this country's highest land to speak in such terms. Was he trying to be cute? In any event, not exactly the way to endear yourself to this millions of immigrants to this country who have mastered English but retain their native accents.
I wonder if Mitt considers Bostonians (pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd) to have funny accents? Or Henry Kissinger?
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all that armed testosterone...
[Read the article: In the military we trust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...means that we'll always, perpetually, be at war somewhere in the world. You can't have the largest "defense" budget in the solar system (in the age of preemptive war, shouldn't we dub it the "offense" budget?) without putting it to use. Soldiers prove their mettle--and get medaled--in wartime, not by "shoveling shit in Louisiana," or battling the mosquitos at Fort Bragg. They advance through the ranks by their actions in battle. They learn valuable skills--flying, logistics, decision-making, machine repair, technology, you name it--through the conduct of war. War is not just good for US business, as the old saying goes--it is also necessary to the success of military careers.
So when I hear that Americans trust the military but oppose the war in Iraq, I think what a contradiction that is, on so many levels. That's like saying you oppose OPEC but trust US oil companies. Folks, if you oppose the war, then the military has ceased to deserve your trust. This is not to say that the rank-and-file should be vilified, far from it. But We the People need to stop blindly feeding the monster that the Pentagon has become and realize that, throughout history, war-making ultimately destroys the very societies it was meant to protect.