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• Tuesday, January 1, 2008 10:01 AM

  WT: I'm neither a pacifist nor a non-interventionist

  You've misunderstood me. Truly. I'm neither a pacifist nor a non-interventionist, but when I think of intervention, I don't generally think of pointing guns at people, or moving aircraft carriers around, not immediately, anyway. I hate shortcuts, especially those which tend to get people killed for no apparent reason other than to demonstrate that we can kill them.

  Oh, but you are a warmonger.

  The fact that you can not see it does not mean it is not so. You have fought, by your own account, for an ever stronger central government your whole life. You did so, and continue to do so, to 'help' the less fortunate I am sure. But deeds by 'good men' trying to do good, often turn out to have evil consequences.

  The governmental power that you have longed for since the 60s is here in spades and the monster Bush is using it to destroy. Is he a superman to do all this on his own? No, he walks on the shoulders of fools who helped craft the all powers of the office he now resides in. (I hope he does not 'hold' it)

  Every time you advocated "saving" some group around the world via USA actions, you pushed us further towards a Fallujah.

  Every time you made fun of non-interventionists, because you like certain interventions, you worked shoulder to shoulder with the present administration. (and RR in South America)

  Every time you claim that a monster like LBJ (or Clinton) was really OK, you help a Bush kill even more poor innocents around the world.

  —bucky1 Read bucky1's other letters
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