Letters to the Editor
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I agree, however . . .
I take issue with Wright's comment about the "chickens coming home to roost" regarding 9/11 not because I don't think that our foreign policy brought it upon us but because it's insensitive to fellow Americans who lost loved ones that day. For children who lost mothers and fathers 9/11 was not an abstract repercussion, it was a serious blow.
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Brulette and chickens coming home to roost
I don't get why that comment is insensitive to the innocent lives lost on 9/11. That is the crux of what Wright was saying. In my own words here, US foreign policy has been the bane of many innocent lives lost abroad, whether by direct action or by proxy wars. Take US FP in the Phillipines with Ferdinand Marcos, in Chile with Augusto Pinochet, in Iran with the Shah, in Nicaragua with Samoza, in South Africa with the evil agents of apartheid, most of Latin America where the US armed right wing death squads to wipe out any dissent. Many of these people were innocent too.
This does not take away the hurt of families who lost their loved ones in 9/11, but brought home the sensitivity of how people in other countries have suffered in the same way because to ruthless US foreign policy.
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HUMANS
First of all Who is really a true American? I remember from History that this land was taken from the people who was already here, but that is something that alot of people wish not too think about. Instead of sharing the world we live in; people instead are trying to control the world we live in and forget that the true owner of everything we see is GOD. One Nation under GOD...Funny huh? Cavemen days never left; it just got high tech really. Instead of making this world a better place for all(heard that before huh?)we instead try to make it a better place on an individual basis and miss out on the BIG picture. Alot of people forgot that we are all humans, no matter where we were born, raised and color is only skin deep( heard that before huh?); beyond the skin and appearance. People take so much time to point out the difference amongst each other; instead of embracing the fact that we are as different amongst each other as all the other animals trying to share this same world. Our way of thinking about each other is ridiculus to the point of stupidity; let the stupidty and ignorance die with the idiots that started it and let's move foward. We all(humans) know right from wrong; GOD gave us that ability to make the right choices. We do alot of talking and taking little action to make this world a better place for everyone here. None of us will live for ever; so why not make it better for the next generation and so forth? Is control that much important to some that they will go as far as destroying the world? Then what? Are we really looking towards the future of the world we live in? Can anyone imagine how far along we all can be; if we all worked together for one cause? To better everyones future not just a few. Really when are we going to wake-up and realize race and all the other factors we use to seperate each other should not be an issue. We need to focus on bettering our way of living for all; we all need to focus on saving this planet; for now that's all we got. It's been 100's of years and we haven't learned a thing at all sad and depressing. When is it going to stop? When are we going to finally say that all is equal? GOD made us all equal. The only difference is the choices we make. I can go on for a while; This is just a small portion of how wrong alot of things are, not just here but across the world. I BEG EVERYONE TO LET GO. BE A BETTER PERSON THAN YOU WERE YESTERDAY.
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@ madamfauntleroy
Yes, agreed.
"However, I do take exception to the educated vs the not educated part. In my experience, I have found that even the educated have a profound lack of common sense and common decency that many of the not educated seem to have in abundance. Hell, look at George W. Didn't he go to Yale, and then we have Newt Gingrich who has a PhD in something or the other."
A fair point, to which I can only offer that while Bush did literally attend Yale, that's not necessarily the same thing as having been "educated" there. But yes, your point is apt, especially because one of Yale's missions has been to churn out the ruling class.
So perhaps, perhaps, the problem is self-serving employment of education. I don't think that education necessarily makes people more moral or ethical.
I do think, however, it provides the potential to do so.
This is tricky, though, you're right. I often find myself overselling the value of education, most likely because I was raised to value it so highly. It was the one thing they could never take away from you, as my mother was fond of saying.
"Also, the most cosmopolitan, the very well heeled and well traveled, yes, they only have stamps in their passports, like Hillary, to boast of their having been to many countries. I know many people like that who have and will support narrow and excluding right wing policies."
Again, point taken.
Thank you for keeping me honest.
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His Blackness Seals the Deal
>>I'm not a fan of Sharpton-style black demagoguery, with its knee-jerk grievance and identity politics.<<
Gary said Obama's blackness "seals the deal" in his decision to vote for him.
That sounds like a fan of identity politics to me.
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The flip side of Obama hysteria
Gary,
Has it ever occurred to you that "the myth of eternal American innocence" is the power driving the Obama juggernaut? My read of the folks caught up in Obamamania is that they are looking for a savior to wash them clean. They can pretend that they have not been tainted with the stain of living and thriving in a war mongering nation by getting behind the anti-war candidate. He promises absolution but he cannot deliver it. We are all responsible for the acts of our government whether we were opposed from the start or not. We live here. We're Americans. We are war mongers, murderers, and torturers.