Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Impeachment Now Like millions of other Americans, I was thrilled by the November election results. My enthusiasm was tempered quickly, however, by the nearly instantaneous...
...These people deserve only mild applause, not lionization...
...What Bush and Cheney have done is without a doubt impeachable...
...For Sullivan, Dean, Fein, and Buchanan, conservatism hasn't failed, Bush has failed...
...Let's take a look at all suffering, injustice, and irrational traditions...
...Sullivan is the biggest offender-he still thinks conservatism is good for America and hasn't given up on it...
...that Kupfer accepted Kennedy's love of killing animals for fun as evidence for his love of the Earth (November issue...
...We may admire the bravery of the White Rose and sympathize with the moral evolution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as he moved from principled Christian pacifist to attempted assassin of Hitler...
...Thomas via e-mail Shawn Wrong I have a bone to pick with Wallace Shawn, whose work I much admire (Interview, by Elizabeth DiNovella, December issue...
...Tobeprogressiveistomove away not just from war, but yes, also hunting...
...A Conservative for Impeachment," by Brian Gilmore, December issue...
...And I think he overestimates just what decent Germans were morally obliged to do to oppose the policies of Hitler...
...Larry Surber Stoneville, North Carolina Suspicious Arabic America was once a land where the aphorism attributed to Voltaire reigned supreme: "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it...
...A perfect illustration of bait-and-switch-distract attention from the perpetrators' fundamentalism by blaming the victims...
...They were only in a position to get themselves and their families and friends killed while failing at every turn...
...They have apparently decided that these domestic issues are too important to allow a divisive, bitter impeachment process to go forward...
...But the fact remains that ordinary Germans were in no position to do anything effective to end the crimes of the regime...
...I call on The Progressive to come out strongly for impeachment proceedings...
...Letters may be e-mailed to: editorial@progressive.org...
...Regis Roberts San Antonio, Texas Realism in the Middle East In Ruth Conniff's recommendation of Jeffrey Goldberg's book Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, she quotes him: "Zionism is no worm-eaten ideology to me...
...Has Dean's past gone away...
...We know better today unless, God forbid, you should be a Latino or Arab immigrant...
...Now is not the time for appeasement...
...He is much mistaken on the question of what Americans are obliged to do to stop G. W. and his crew from doing horrid things like torture...
...An object lesson is in order...
...And Hitler's Germany...
...My enthusiasm was tempered quickly, however, by the nearly instantaneous statements by both future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and DNC Chairman Howard Dean that impeachment was off the table...
...In the case of us Americans, the most potent thing almost all of us can do, though Shawn pooh-poohs this, is simply vote against G. W. and his works at every opportunity...
...There are 650,000 dead Iraqi civilians-men, women, and children-and 3,000 dead American soldiers who also demand accountability...
...That women are now finding hunting cool and "liberated" really makes me sad...
...Mild Applause Why do some liberals insist on propelling anti-Bush and anti-Iraq War conservatives to god-like status...
...The worst tendency of these conservatives is their insistence on having their cake and eating it too...
...It is understandable that Pelosi and Dean want to focus on constructive activity, considering the six long years of neglect by the do-nothing Republican Congress...
...Please include your city and state...
...I am still susceptible to the demands of blood and tribe" ("Our Favorite Books of 2006," December issue...
...Does Sullivan still champion social Darwinist policies that hurt the poor...
...Has Fein changed his stance on abortion...
...They were a call for accountability...
...Future would-be tyrants need to understand that our country will not tolerate this type of arrogant leadership style that disregards the Constitution...
...It's ironic that the authorities specifically tried to silence a message simply because it was written in Arabic ("When Arabic Is Suspect," by Matthew Rothschild, December issue...
...It provided some relief and security to me, knowing that I wasn't the only person who felt this way about the war...
...Sure, they should be commended for waking up and speaking out, but they still believe in disastrous policies that benefit the few...
...That men still kill animals in order to put their dead body parts up on the wall as evidence of their manliness seems to me primitive and barbaric...
...Many of us have done that...
...This is a serious misreading of the temper of this nation...
...It is Congress's responsibility, it is its duty, to respond to criminal activity flowing from the Executive Branch...
...Then, of course, you deserve whatever happens to you...
...I found the article to be fascinating and original...
...We will not be silent," indeed...
...The periods of our history where we spat on the Irish, took advantage of the Swedes, mocked the Italians, enslaved the Africans, and imprisoned the Japanese are now dismissed as the idiocy of an immature, ignorant America...
...Serious crimes against our country's democracy have been committed, and they need to be punished, in no uncertain terms...
...She then commends his focus on the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism...
...Thad Woodman Westerville, Ohio Editor's note: We have done so, and will continue to do so...
...They were a call for justice...
...Is Buchanan still a racist pig...
...Bruce Fein has been added to this list of conservatives, along with Andrew Sullivan, John Dean, and even the despicable Pat Buchanan...
...Michael J. Neto Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania Irrational Traditions I was disappointed to read in David Kupfer's introduction to the interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr...
...Art Hilgart via e-mail Thoughts on War I am writing in response to Howard Zinn's article "Why War Fails" (November issue...
...But they are wrong...
...All letters may be edited for clarity and conciseness, and may appear either in the magazine or on its web page...
...The votes cast were angry votes...
...Everything I love about this country is quickly becoming a memory...
...Instead, he strangely claims that Bush and his Republican thugs aren't conservative and have tainted "Reagan's legacy...
...Joseph Auclair Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The editors welcome correspondence from readers on all topics, but prefer to publish letters that comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...
Vol. 71 • January 2007 • No. 1
