Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Collective Criminality Adolph L. Reed Jr. paints a devastating picture of the situation in his hometown, New Orleans ("The Real Divide," November issue). I agree that the...
...We have become the invader of its sacred soil...
...But we must halt the complaints and act...
...Second, abandon our imperial designs over the oil of that area...
...After our support for Iraq in the 1980s did not give us what we sought, we did manage to contrive a war to liberate Kuwait...
...Seems to me like people stopped becoming involved once the idiot box showed up and started telling them how to think rather than forming opinions from experience and acting on them...
...Please include your city and state...
...Robinson is still helping all of us in the United States, especially those like myself, an elderly Caucasian, to understand the long struggle for racial equality and what we must keep trying to do...
...He may take us over the brink or inspire an entirely new social and political conscience...
...But Cusac's reference to "the Kansas-Iowa border" will surprise Nebraska and Missouri...
...A part of that action was the successful overture to Saudi Arabia to permit U.S...
...Almost immediately the United States began its efforts to place our combat forces, preferably a division, in Saudi Arabia...
...Join the rest of the world in purchasing our needs on the open market...
...How can we solve the situation in which we find ourselves...
...We permitted the throttling of Mossadegh in Iran, the deposing of Arbenz in Guatemala, the Vietnam War, Timor, the Iran-Contra debacle, the assaults on Cuba, the 1991 Iraq invasion, and the fraudulent 2000 election...
...You speak of holding the terrorists who attacked New York and London accountable for their own actions, but whose terrorist action came first...
...During the 1991 war with Iraq, we engaged in a "turkey shoot" of retreating soldiers...
...With that concession we have reaped the whirlwind...
...However, in a very morbid sense, Bush, et al., may be a Thor's thunderbolt shattering our post World War II quiescence...
...Alex Tschetter via e-mail Terrorist Actions "Unmoored Words," in the October issue has stirred my memory (Editor's Note, by Matthew Rothschild...
...Letters may be e-mailed to: editorial@progressive.org...
...military forces to be stationed within its borders...
...For Santorum to dump all the responsibility for raising their children on his wife and to leave her to home-school their six children while he gallivants around the country pontificating on "family values," is brutally selfish and self-centered...
...Your interview certainly has helped me to understand and has steadied my resolve...
...In the current Iraq War, casualties, primarily civilian, may number more than 100,000...
...Dorothy Timmerman San Antonio, Texas Zinn Speaks the Truth Truer words were never spoken ("It's Not up to the Court," by Howard Zinn, November issue...
...I agree that the entire Bush cabal should spend the rest of their lives in jail for this malfeasance...
...Hugh Page Albuquerque, New Mexico Lost in the Midwest Anne-Marie Cusac is right that Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is an important book (Favorite Books of the Year, December issue...
...Pierre Hartman Tehachapi, California Santorum's America Ruth Conniff's article on Rick Santorum reveals an even more intellectually challenged individual than was apparent from the occasional soundbite one hears ("Rick Santorum's America," October issue...
...B. R. Douglas Des Moines, Iowa Good Interview Thank you for the interview published in your October issue (Interview with Randall Robinson, by Amitabh Pal...
...Colonel James B. Burkholder, retired Tucson, Arizona The editors welcome correspondence from readers on all topics, but prefer to publish letters that comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...
...I could go on and on but I have to go write my Congressmen...
...Many more invasions simply were erased from our history...
...And the corporations are still in charge...
...Robinson...
...When I read a piece like this, which speaks such obvious truths, it is very difficult to try and understand why so many people don't care enough to stand up and demand their rights...
...Bush, with his in-your-face attitude, has spelled out the nature of our collective criminality in such a blatant manner...
...So let us hear from you as much as you're able, Mr...
...All letters may be edited for clarity and conciseness, and may appear either in the magazine or on its web page...
...Could it be those whom we now label terrorists...
...If only protests and rallies were as sexy as SUVs and cell phones we would be in business...
...It's at times like this that I wish the television were never invented...
...Meanwhile, pursue the search for alternative fuels...
...Britain and France following World War II had the perspicacity to withdraw their military forces from that area...
...Who is holding us accountable for our terrorist actions...
...Thank you, Howard Zinn, for your tireless dedication...
...Those efforts were rebuffed...
...His woolly-headed and incongruous thinking is truly awesome, even by ultrarightwing standards...
...Let's go back to basics regarding the Mideast...
...First, withdraw from Iraq as rapidly as possible...
...Not another life should be lost to satisfy our greed...
Vol. 70 • January 2006 • No. 1
