Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A Star is Born? 2
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/opinion/01kristol.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=kristol&st=cse&oref=slogin- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:21 AMSubject: A Star is Born?To: letters@nytimes.com - Hide quoted text -To the Editor: As I live and learn, today I agree with William Kristol. Mr. Kristol tells us ""McCain doesn't need a foreign policy expert as vice president to help him out". Never mind his reliance on senator Lieberman to explain (again and again) the difference between Shia and Sunni; senator McCain would bring far more to the presidency than did president Bush. America now has seven years experience of a co-presidency in which our nominal leader has tried to lead on issues he doesn't understand. It's time for the vice president to resume the job of being ready in case the worst happens to the president. This is the role for which governor Palin isn't ready.Barry Levine- Hide quoted text -1142 Brown Ave.Lafayette, CA 94549
A Star is Born?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/opinion/01kristol.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=kristol&st=cse&oref=slogin
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:21 AMSubject: A Star is Born?To: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: As I live and learn, today I agree with William Kristol. Mr. Kristol tells us ""McCain doesn't need a foreign policy expert as vice president to help him out". Never mind his reliance on senator Lieberman to explain (again and again) the difference between Shia and Sunni. America now has seven years experience of a co-presidency in which our nominal leader has tried to lead on issues he doesn't understand. It's time for the vice president to resume the job of being ready in case the worst happens to the president. This is the role for which governor Palin isn't ready.Barry Levine- Hide quoted text -1142 Brown Ave.Lafayette, CA 94549
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:21 AMSubject: A Star is Born?To: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: As I live and learn, today I agree with William Kristol. Mr. Kristol tells us ""McCain doesn't need a foreign policy expert as vice president to help him out". Never mind his reliance on senator Lieberman to explain (again and again) the difference between Shia and Sunni. America now has seven years experience of a co-presidency in which our nominal leader has tried to lead on issues he doesn't understand. It's time for the vice president to resume the job of being ready in case the worst happens to the president. This is the role for which governor Palin isn't ready.Barry Levine- Hide quoted text -1142 Brown Ave.Lafayette, CA 94549
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Media's Balancing Act
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/opinion/28kristof.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kristof%20balancing&st=cse&oref=slogin
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 AMSubject: Media's Balancing ActTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: Mr. Kristof leads us through three hypothetical quandaries for the press, but stops short of the big one. The American people went to the polls in November 2004 unaware that our government was spying on us. Although this newspaper knew of president Bush's illegal domestic wiretaps, that story was withheld from the public for another year yet. Would we have voted the scoundrel out? Would we have voted in a congress with the mandate and the will to restore the rule of law? We can't know. The election was decided by an electorate who didn't have the facts. Call that "democracy" if you want.Barry Levine
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 AMSubject: Media's Balancing ActTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: Mr. Kristof leads us through three hypothetical quandaries for the press, but stops short of the big one. The American people went to the polls in November 2004 unaware that our government was spying on us. Although this newspaper knew of president Bush's illegal domestic wiretaps, that story was withheld from the public for another year yet. Would we have voted the scoundrel out? Would we have voted in a congress with the mandate and the will to restore the rule of law? We can't know. The election was decided by an electorate who didn't have the facts. Call that "democracy" if you want.Barry Levine
After Musharraf, U.S. Struggles to Find New Pakistan Ally Against Taliban
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/asia/23assess.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=zardari&st=cse&oref=slogin - Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:48 PMSubject: After Musharraf, U.S. Struggles to Find New Pakistan Ally Against TalibanTo: letters@nytimes.com To the Editor: Were it only a matter of choosing which strongman to back, the U.S. would have already ceded out best option. The American electorate has expressed a desire for change. Surely this includes an embrace of the rule of law, rather than the rule of men, abroad as much as at home. Our relationships with Pinochet, Pahlevi, Marcos, Noriega, Minh and others stain the 20th century. If the 21st century is to be better than the last, it will be because the U.S. will have learned to respect Democracy.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
After Musharraf, U.S. Struggles to Find New Pakistan Ally Against Taliban
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/asia/23assess.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=zardari&st=cse&oref=slogin
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:48 PMSubject: After Musharraf, U.S. Struggles to Find New Pakistan Ally Against TalibanTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: It is important that we know the players in Pakistan's politics. The focus on personalities however feeds America's dirty habit of relating to people and not to governments. It is governments that make wars and treaties and alliances and laws. For too long the U.S. has backed leaders we deem friendly over their own constituents. The world will be safer for Democracy when the U.S. starts respecting voters, in Pakistan as much as here at home.Barry Levine
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:48 PMSubject: After Musharraf, U.S. Struggles to Find New Pakistan Ally Against TalibanTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: It is important that we know the players in Pakistan's politics. The focus on personalities however feeds America's dirty habit of relating to people and not to governments. It is governments that make wars and treaties and alliances and laws. For too long the U.S. has backed leaders we deem friendly over their own constituents. The world will be safer for Democracy when the U.S. starts respecting voters, in Pakistan as much as here at home.Barry Levine
Friday, August 22, 2008
Iraq Takes Aim at U.S.-Tied Sunni Groups' Leaders
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/world/middleeast/22sunni.html?ref=todayspaper
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:11 AMSubject: Iraq Takes Aim at U.S.-Tied Sunni Groups' LeadersTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: Two years ago, the U.S. administration de-emphasized building non-sectarian national institutions in Iraq in favor of empowering and arming sectarian groups. While these groups have enforced a peace of sorts in their own communities, this was never a path to a functioning Iraqi state. Now, one of these factions has launched a new attack on another. Can The Bush administration keep the lid on long enough to get McCain elected? For lack of any grander strategic vision, we may yet see our grandchildren patrolling an occupied Baghdad.Barry Levine
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:11 AMSubject: Iraq Takes Aim at U.S.-Tied Sunni Groups' LeadersTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: Two years ago, the U.S. administration de-emphasized building non-sectarian national institutions in Iraq in favor of empowering and arming sectarian groups. While these groups have enforced a peace of sorts in their own communities, this was never a path to a functioning Iraqi state. Now, one of these factions has launched a new attack on another. Can The Bush administration keep the lid on long enough to get McCain elected? For lack of any grander strategic vision, we may yet see our grandchildren patrolling an occupied Baghdad.Barry Levine
Hoping It's Biden
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22brooks.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=david%20brooks&st=cse&oref=slogin
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:55 AMSubject: Hoping It's BidenTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: For reasons too subtle for a dumb Democrat to grasp, my subscription to this paper underwrites a salary to David Brooks to condescend to tell us what to believe and whom to support. I can't change mr. Brooks' views, but I can find other uses for my money.Barry Levine
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:55 AMSubject: Hoping It's BidenTo: letters@nytimes.com
- Hide quoted text -To the Editor: For reasons too subtle for a dumb Democrat to grasp, my subscription to this paper underwrites a salary to David Brooks to condescend to tell us what to believe and whom to support. I can't change mr. Brooks' views, but I can find other uses for my money.Barry Levine
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