Letters to the Editor
fetboy
Published Letters: 1229 Editor's Choice: 22
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Future Civil War?
[Read the article: Bush's new friends: The Sunnis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You mean there is not a current Civil War in Iraq? The high body count every day in Baghdad is exhibit #1 that a active Civil War is indeed in progress in Iraq, and that the American presence there is only keeping a not too tight lid on it.
We are dealing with 2 groups of people (3 if you include the Kurds) who have more or less been at war with each other in that region for over a thousand year. Such a history of deep hatred does not end over night, or during a decade of foreign occupation. If a foreign occupation could end the civil strife in Iraq, then the British would have been successful in their decade long attempt to do just that after World War 1.
Armed Sunnis who are loyal to the US occupation, will just wait for the US to leave, and then they will take up arms more actively against the Shiites that they hate with a passion. The hatred between the Sunnis and the Shiites has lasted for centuries of generations, it has been exasperated further by the de-bathification/Iraqi army disbandment policies of the Bush Administration, and it will last for many more generations to come.
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So ronhelvey
[Read the article: Bush's new friends: The Sunnis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to you we (America) should keep a force in Mesopotamia till the end time, because to prevent the bloodbath, in the way that you are insinuating, that's what we would have to do.
BTW, are you willing to stay there for at least 20 of those years that you are suggesting we stay to prevent the inevitable bloodbath that you are talking about?
I'm sure just about every American soldier over there in Iraq right now would love to have you take their place, especially the ones that have been there for over a year and had their tours extended to 15 months.
Did you stop to think that there might be a better way to stop the bloodshed in Mesopotamia without having to keep a large, 9 Billion dollar a week, military breaking, contingent of US troops permanently station over there?
Obviously Dubya didn't, so I guess you to decided to follow his lead.
There are other options, such as partitioning Iraq along ethnic lines and working with all of Iraq's neighbors to hammer out a lasting fair territorial arrangement that the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds can all agree to (such a plan worked in the Balkans), but you and the Neo-cons are stuck on staying the blood stained course in Iraq, and just moving the goal post to new, unachievable, benchmarks each and every month till the end of time.
I, and 2 thirds of American voters, are tired of paying the 9 Billion dollars a week just to watch our troops die, while the situation in Iraq just gets worse.
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To Aheda Zanetti!
[Read the article: Burqini creator hearts "Opus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On behalf of insensitive Western, White, Christian, Male, Pricks, I want to apologize for the ugliness that has been expressed toward you, and say that my wife and daughter, who are not Muslims (but are extremely active and are avid surfers) find your Burqini's and sport's wear quite cute. And my only question is, when will the sport's wear line come out, and can you please make items for 5 year olds?
Don't listen to these morons. We men of intelligence (though there are so few of us) don't hold all of Islam responsible for the ravings of a few mad Sheiks, anymore than intelligent Muslin women hold all of Western society responsible for the blatant lies that the Neo-cons, the Western media, and the Bush administration spread to convince Americans to authorize the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Your clothing designs are chic, and I predict they will be a huge hit, and not just with the world's 700 Million Muslim women.
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Designer Everything!
[Read the article: It's a girl ... please]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have designer clothes, designer cars, designer homes, designer drugs, and designer pets, so isn't it logical that we would want designer off-spring as well?
Who doesn't want a designer baby?
Pretty soon every child born will be destined to have a 100 plus year life span, with prefect teeth, and near complete immunity to cancer. And then of course there will be those idiots who's children will suffer horribly because they were born too white or with other recessive glamour traits that will lead to a life time of misery.
I chose to sire the perfect children the old fashioned way, by breeding a woman of a race far removed from my own, because I know mutts are superiors. I got 2 great kids, and it didn't cost me an extra penny.
When did natural selection and sexual selection become taboo, and why are we spending a lot of money to fight nature when it's easy to work with it?
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@ AKA Smith
[Read the article: It's a girl ... please]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No I disagree.
It's far more safer, productive, efficient, and cheaper to work with nature, as to opposed to against it with science. But you can sometimes get science and nature to work together, but making designer baby's is not a good example of science and nature working together.
If you know that you have a family history of a genetic illness or condition, then look for a mate whose family doesn't possess those genetic traits. The regions of the world are very well connected, so today it is very easy to meet a mate that complements you perfectly. Just go online, I guarantee the perfect woman/man for you is out there, and even if she or he is on the other side of the world, you can still reach her/him through e-mail (and plane fair is fairly cheap).
Now there's a good example of science and nature working together.