Letters to the Editor
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GREAT ARTICLE, KAMIYA!!!
I read the various responses, both pro and con to your article, Gary. You have a great future as a Salon columnist.
Your position about the Democrats is 100 percent correct: unless they get cohones and go after Bush's "War on Terror," they will NEVER become the majority party. The only reason that they may win a house of Congress back at all, is the Republicans keep handing it to them, with the likes of Marc Foley being on the House "Committee for Molested Children." (not sure of the name, exactly) (talk about the fox guarding the hen house!)
Its not an issue of being "tough" versus being "soft." It's an issue of being "right" versus "wrong." Bush is 100 percent wrong, period. Terrorism IS a police issue, not a war issue.
Al Gore may be the person who can rescue the Democrats from themselves - he's just waiting for the right time to enter the race, right before the first primaries in January of 2008. First, he has an issue that is now extremely timely, global warming. In order to solve global warming, we must come up with alternative sources of energy, which will in turn relieve our dependence on Arab oil. Arab oil is of course the problem with the Middle East, with the Bushies trying to keep the Iraq oil for their oil buddies, and the Bushies looking the other way when it comes to Saudi Arabian democracy. What a joke, Bush and Condi talking about "bringing democracy to the Middle East!"
Second, Gore knows that the so-called "war on Terror" is best won by intelligence and smart police work, not by conducting endless war. Revisit Gore's Martin Luther King Day speech about Bush's illegal wiretapping:
Is our Congress today in more danger than were their predecessors when the British army was marching on the Capitol? Is the world more dangerous than when we faced an ideological enemy with tens of thousands of missiles poised to be launched against us and annihilate our country at a moment's notice? Is America in more danger now than when we faced worldwide fascism on the march - when our fathers fought and won two World Wars simultaneously?
It is simply an insult to those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they. Yet they faithfully protected our freedoms and now it is up to us to do the same.
Again, thank you for a great article, Mr. Kamiya; I look forward to reading many more!