---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine
to the Editor:
Today's story, that Iraq's youth are turning away from religious affiliation is insightful, but hardly news. Before the U.S. invasion, Iraq's most senior cleric, grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani had predicted that a government run by clerics like that in Iran would have the effect of bringing disrepute not only to that government, but to the clerics and to religion itself. The U.S. has shaped its policy in Iraq on the inputs from many disreputable sources, while carefully turning a deaf ear to the man who could be our most valuable ally in the nation. If our selective deafness is merely because ayatollah al-Sistani asserts that oil deposits are a national asset, and cannot be privatized, I would ask why this is relevant to our campaign to bring freedom to the Iraqi people, or to eliminate a base of terrorism.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Ave
Lafayette, CA 94549
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