[lit-ideas] Re: Better late than never
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:03:36 -0500
It's called spin. We're negotiating is good news, but we're negotiating
because the military option didn't work. I don't need to read articles on why
the world needs more war. We have enough nuclear capacity to wipe out Iran and
just about everybody in the wolrd many times over. They're not insane unless
you have reason to believe they are. If we were so "successful" in Iraq, how
in the world can we even think about invading Iran? We need to focus on making
ourselves secure, like having a Manhattan project to develop alternative fuel
sources. Instead, we're busy rattling sabers. People don't learn, not even
the hard way. So be it, have your war.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 2/1/2006 10:54:38 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Better late than never
Irene: you ought to read this article. It?s very good. It follows logically
from the Christopher Hitchens article I posted a few days ago. The Sunni
Insurgents were shooting at Al Quaeda in the Hitchens? article. In the one you
post, dialogue between the U.S. and the Iraqi Sunni insurgents is in progress.
That?s good news.
Here is what you wrote in your previous note: To much of the world, we are a
rogue state. We started an offensive war for no reason and that we now have to
finish. Never mind Lawrence. I'll bet you're a card carrying member of the
NRA too. BTW, there's an article in Newsweek that we are covertly (not so
covertly I guess if Newsweek knows about it) negotiating with the insurgents in
Iraq. We're using diplomacy, only a bit late. If I can find the link, I'll
send it.
The Newsweek article does not support what you wrote. The offensive against
Saddam Hussein and subsequently against the Islamists in Iraq seems to be (as
your article suggests) even more successful than I thought.
Lawrence
From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Andy Amago
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:33 PM
To: lit-ideas
Subject: [lit-ideas] Better late than never
It was easier than I thought:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079548/site/newsweek/
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