Letters to the Editor
pinehurst
Published Letters: 32 Editor's Choice: 3
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Judy Miller and the Damage Done
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Judith Miller's role in bolstering the deceptions leading up to the war against Iraq,
plus her aiding and abetting the continued dirty operations by Bush administration high-level figures such as Libby, puts her way over the line from "journalist" to political operative.
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shipwrecked
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is truly a sad state of affairs when George H.W. Bush looks decent relative to George W.Bush. I think it's safe to say, that the Bush Family has never and will never provide the nation with the quality of leadership it, and the world, deserves.
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We're going to need more than conservatives' beloved free market to save us
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The notion of "free markets" stands in opposition to national sovereignty. National sovereignty is defined for the United States in the preamble to the Constitution, in particular the "promote the general welfare" clause. The concept of "free markets" was conceived and propagated by the economist and British East India Company propagandist Adam Smith, in order to create an ideology that could justify and rationalize the pure evil of the Company and the British Empire. It was meant to be a weapon with which to assault the concept that sovereign nations should provide trade and labor policies that would be beneficial to their national interests, to their domestic industries and population. A strong, capable and competent national government is the only institution with the ability to address a national emergency with both the resources and the interest to deal with it effectively. Global conglomerates have neither the resources nor the interests to do so.
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Ten Years of Salon
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first time I heard of Salon was during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, and if memory serves me well, it was the Henry Hyde story. I didn't begin to subscribe to Salon until about a year and a half ago.
One thing in particular draws me to Salon at least several times a day, and has me sending Salon articles and War Room news items to people all over the country: you have definite opinions, and strong ones, but that you strive to be truthful.
I don't believe there is anything called "objective reporting," since the very choosing of what to cover, and therefore what constitutes news, is subjective. So the real criterion is whether or not a publication is determined to get at the truth. From my experience with Salon I think your writers do strive to be truthful, and are (as I am) rightfully galled at the epidemic of lying and distortion that characterizes our political scene.
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Bush's Bluster
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It must be one of the greatest ironies of history that the country that first developed nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, and the only country in the world to ever use those weapons against civilian population centers, is now about the business of going around the world trying to police the rest of the non-nuclear world into not developing either nuclear energy nor nuclear weapons. We as a sovereign nation make decisions based on our national interest; every other sovereign nation has the same right. Every nation has the right to have access to or to develop the most advanced technologies for production of energy (or anything else for that matter). And since we have invaded developing country after developing country, in most cases on the flimsiest of pretexts or altogether false pretexts, it would not seem surprising that those smaller countries, where possible, should want to obtain some capability to defend themselves or at least deter us from attacking.
If we as patriotic Americans switched places with the Iranians, where they were now the only "superpower" left and we were a third-world country in their position, wouldn't we declare that we had the right to develop nuclear energy and to defend ourselves with whatever was necessary to maintain our sovereignty?
There is a peaceful way out of this precarious situation but it will take the U.S. to abandon its disgusting know-nothing arrogance and have an actual fundamental change in its strategic policy and thinking to achieve it.
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The lessons of history
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." What does that say about those who are both ignorant of history and have complete disdain for it? We have an ahistorical president.