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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:23 PMSubject: A Civil War Iraq Can't WinTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Anthony Cordesman likens Moktada al-Sadr to a Mafia boss, but warns against characterizing him as a "bad guy". Perhaps we will back him as a head of state someday? Moktada as-Sadr still needs to be charged and tried in the murder of Abdul Majid al-Khoei. As long the Iraqi government treats al-Sadr as untouchable, it has no credibility with any of the parties in that country. The U.S. has a long record of using unsavory characters to work our will on the world, but to hop into bed with this particular murderer would be crass even by our standards.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
For Carbon Emissions, A Goal of Less Than Zero
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:15 AMSubject: For Carbon Emissions, A Goal of Less Than ZeroTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: If all human activity were carbon-neutral tomorrow, and if we restored all the world's forests to their state before the Industrial revolution, we would still be 200 years in the hole on carbon. After two centuries of pumping carbon from fossil reserves into the atmosphere, we have to take those gigatons of carbon out of circulation. This need not require planting new crops, nor strip-mining the plankton on which so much marine life depends. Currently, photosynthesis fixes carbon at about twenty times that humankind releases it. At steady-state, all of that goes futilely back into the atmosphere through the actions of cellulases in ungulate guts and soil fungi. If we were to intercept five percent of that cellulose (as waste newsprint, or bagasse, or sawdust or lawn clippings, or rice straw) and bury it, we could offset the current human contribution to atmospheric CO2.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:15 AMSubject: For Carbon Emissions, A Goal of Less Than ZeroTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: If all human activity were carbon-neutral tomorrow, and if we restored all the world's forests to their state before the Industrial revolution, we would still be 200 years in the hole on carbon. After two centuries of pumping carbon from fossil reserves into the atmosphere, we have to take those gigatons of carbon out of circulation. This need not require planting new crops, nor strip-mining the plankton on which so much marine life depends. Currently, photosynthesis fixes carbon at about twenty times that humankind releases it. At steady-state, all of that goes futilely back into the atmosphere through the actions of cellulases in ungulate guts and soil fungi. If we were to intercept five percent of that cellulose (as waste newsprint, or bagasse, or sawdust or lawn clippings, or rice straw) and bury it, we could offset the current human contribution to atmospheric CO2.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Yes, Carville Says, He Meant It
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:21 AMSubject: Yes, Carville Says, He Meant ItTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: For too long, partisan loyalty has trumped competence in choosing our public servants. After the debacles of the Katrina response and the rebuilding of Iraq, I hope the we are ready for something new. It is time that we put the Atwaters and Carvilles behind us, and work towards a competent government that serves the interests of the American people, rather than the ambitions of our political aristocrats.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:21 AMSubject: Yes, Carville Says, He Meant ItTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: For too long, partisan loyalty has trumped competence in choosing our public servants. After the debacles of the Katrina response and the rebuilding of Iraq, I hope the we are ready for something new. It is time that we put the Atwaters and Carvilles behind us, and work towards a competent government that serves the interests of the American people, rather than the ambitions of our political aristocrats.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Why Radical Islam Just Won't Die
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:38 PMSubject: Why Radical Islam Just Won't DieTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Paul Berman falsely equates Radical Islam with Iraq, then goes on to assert that we have tried all possible responses. We have not. In 2001, the American president had the opportunity to lead a broad international coalition to wipe out the threat from Al Qaeda. The governments and peoples of Saudi Arabia and Iran stood ready to join us in this venture. Instead, president Bush preferred to claim the powers of a "war-time president". With a single word, he alienated our most valuable allies in this war, as he called for "crusade". Six and a half years later, Osama bin Laden is still at large and the American people are no safer. Iraq has proven to be a distraction from our real struggle with Islam Extremism. We look forward to the next administration, which may spend more energy on our global security, and less on aggrandizing the office of the president.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:38 PMSubject: Why Radical Islam Just Won't DieTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Paul Berman falsely equates Radical Islam with Iraq, then goes on to assert that we have tried all possible responses. We have not. In 2001, the American president had the opportunity to lead a broad international coalition to wipe out the threat from Al Qaeda. The governments and peoples of Saudi Arabia and Iran stood ready to join us in this venture. Instead, president Bush preferred to claim the powers of a "war-time president". With a single word, he alienated our most valuable allies in this war, as he called for "crusade". Six and a half years later, Osama bin Laden is still at large and the American people are no safer. Iraq has proven to be a distraction from our real struggle with Islam Extremism. We look forward to the next administration, which may spend more energy on our global security, and less on aggrandizing the office of the president.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Bush Defends Iraq War in Speech
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To the Editor: It is no longer surprising to hear president Bush crowing over "successes" in Iraq. His handlers have raised lowered expectations to an artform. Those of us out here in the reality-based community note that more Iraqis lack the simple necessities of life than under Saddam Hussein. Instead of building a free and peaceful Iraq, we are institutionalizing an Iraq run by armed sects, in which our indefinite presence is required to limit the violence. President Bush gives us too much talk of "successes". The American people are less interested in his "successes" that only get us deeper into Iraq, than in his successor who will get us out.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
To the Editor: It is no longer surprising to hear president Bush crowing over "successes" in Iraq. His handlers have raised lowered expectations to an artform. Those of us out here in the reality-based community note that more Iraqis lack the simple necessities of life than under Saddam Hussein. Instead of building a free and peaceful Iraq, we are institutionalizing an Iraq run by armed sects, in which our indefinite presence is required to limit the violence. President Bush gives us too much talk of "successes". The American people are less interested in his "successes" that only get us deeper into Iraq, than in his successor who will get us out.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Marking 5 Years, Bush Insists U.S. Must Win in Iraq
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:20 AMSubject: Marking 5 Years, Bush Insists U.S. Must Win in IraqTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
It is no longer surprising to hear president Bush crowing over "successes" in Iraq. His handlers have raised lowered expectations to an artform. Those of us out here in the reality-based community note that more Iraqis lack the simple necessities of life than under Saddam Hussein. Instead of building a free and peaceful Iraq, we are institutionalizing an Iraq run by armed sects, in which our indefinite presence is required to limit the violence. President Bush gives us too much talk of "successes". The American people are less and less interested in "the decider" and increasingly interested in his successor.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Ave
Lafayette, CA 94549
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:20 AMSubject: Marking 5 Years, Bush Insists U.S. Must Win in IraqTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
It is no longer surprising to hear president Bush crowing over "successes" in Iraq. His handlers have raised lowered expectations to an artform. Those of us out here in the reality-based community note that more Iraqis lack the simple necessities of life than under Saddam Hussein. Instead of building a free and peaceful Iraq, we are institutionalizing an Iraq run by armed sects, in which our indefinite presence is required to limit the violence. President Bush gives us too much talk of "successes". The American people are less and less interested in "the decider" and increasingly interested in his successor.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Ave
Lafayette, CA 94549
Bush Defends Iraq War in Speech
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/world/middleeast/20prexy.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levineDate: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:28 AMSubject: Bush Defends Iraq War in SpeechTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: It is no longer surprising to hear president Bush crowing over "successes" in Iraq. His handlers have raised lowered expectations to an artform. Those of us out here in the reality-based community note that more Iraqis lack the simple necessities of life than under Saddam Hussein. Instead of building a free and peaceful Iraq, we are institutionalizing an Iraq run by armed sects, in which our indefinite presence is required to limit the violence.
President Bush gives us too much talk of "successes". The American people are less and less interested in his "successes" and increasingly interested in his successor.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine
To the Editor: It is no longer surprising to hear president Bush crowing over "successes" in Iraq. His handlers have raised lowered expectations to an artform. Those of us out here in the reality-based community note that more Iraqis lack the simple necessities of life than under Saddam Hussein. Instead of building a free and peaceful Iraq, we are institutionalizing an Iraq run by armed sects, in which our indefinite presence is required to limit the violence.
President Bush gives us too much talk of "successes". The American people are less and less interested in his "successes" and increasingly interested in his successor.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
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