(April 12, 2004)
Regarding Gilles d'Aymery's Safer, Stronger, More Democratic: Kosovo, Iraq, And The Heavens To the Editor: Another terrific piece, thank you; although, I suppose, it's just stating the obvious! Amazing how many of the free trade "coffee left," the comfortable and concerned, are still blathering on about war crimes committed by Serbs....are still frothing into their lattes about humanitarian intervention in the Balkans... And how come it didn't happen in Rwanda? That, well, you know, Saddam WAS a bad man and the world and the Iraqi people ARE, after all, better off now. Amazing. The amnesia of this culture is truly breathtaking...and the Orwellian control of the media (witness the NYT's coverage of the new puppet government in Haiti, and the lack of questions about Noriega and Negroponte and Abrams and ex-Duvalierists) is now at new a level of unreality. Does nobody remember Rummie's trip as Middle East envoy....those tax credits to Saddam AFTER he gassed the Kurds....flying US-made helicopters? Does anyone really care about Scalia and Cheney hunting ducks....openly flouting all traditions of impartiality? I guess not. Aristide was given a short vacation in the most obscure country in Africa....but has the audacity to return to Jamaica....so Condi threatens him....so much for democracy and sovereignty. State department front groups helped create opposition in Haiti....the same folks who invented the KLA are plucky freedom fighters opposing the hated demonic Serb death machine....(and yeah, Kerry wants to increase the NED budget)....so sure, yellow cake, WMD....Castro is a monster who eats babies....Iraqis pulled babies from incubators in Kuwait....and check Bush's appointments to Health and Human Services (the one argument for actually thinking of voting Kerry....that, and Ashcroft)....but I am rambling as usual. The surreality increases....the short term memory loss is systemic in the over medicated and politically comatose American public. What's going to change the armada of death? I don't know. I wish I did, but maybe a crisis we can't imagine will awaken everyone....global warming? We'll see, I guess. John Steppling Krakow, Poland - March 30, 2004 ********** Regarding Phil Rockstroh's A Poison Pen Letter To Our Apostle Of Perpetual Psychosis, Brother Mel Gibson To the Editor: I was not able to follow everything in Phil Rockstroh's critique of Gibson's Passion. I think that most people don't get it. The Jews in the movie are today's Catholics. The Romans in the movie are today's non-Catholics. Together, they are destroying the Catholic Church as the mystical body of Christ again goes through its passion. Nick Novelly St. Marys, Kansas, USA - March 29, 2004 ********** Regarding Manuel García's Election 2016: The Issues To the Editor: I think that Manuel García's writings about 2016 are right on the money. Thank you for this article. I found it all fascinating. I remember, as a child in the early to mid 1970s, that it was predicted [Ed. cf. Club of Rome] we only had about 30 years left of oil and/or coal. That made a distinct impression on me. I could really imagine what it would be like without everything. That gave me my fullest understanding (as a child) of the scope of what mankind has done to this world. It just goes to show that things haven't changed, just the numbers were off. It is scary that mankind has to be so greedy. I am sure there is so much technology related to alternative sources of energy that have been bought up by either big oil companies or by American car companies to keep us using gasoline and oil and other related products. I have been frustrated in trying to find economic (thus contributing less pollution and using less petroleum based products) vehicles to drive. I could dive deep into your topics, but won't. I hope that your writing stirs the thoughts of others. Mary Ellen Crawford Wallingford, Connecticut, USA - March 29, 2004 Manuel García follows up: ********** We appreciate and welcome your comments. Please, sign your e-mail with your name and add your city, state, country, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. (Letters may be shortened and edited) |