: re: Obama Is Pressed to Open Military Front Against ISIS in Libya

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:40 AM
Subject: re: Obama Is Pressed to Open Military Front Against ISIS in Libya
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

    In recent decades, the U.S. has given the Egyptian military over $100 billion in aid. In 2013, we even threw the Egyptians' elected president under the bus to keep that investment in hands of our choosing.  The day has come, a use has been found for our proxy force. Let el-Sisi take out the Islamists he so fears in Libya. Or let him explain where all that money has gone.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/world/africa/isis-libya-us-special-ops.html?_r=0

: re: Hillary Clinton’s Dutiful Slog

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:22 AM
Subject: re: Hillary Clinton’s Dutiful Slog
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

    Even as she lays claim president Obama's mantle, Hillary Clinton serves us a campaign that looks back, and not forward. In the mode of the first president Bush she urges us to "stay the course" unbothered by "that 'vision' thing".  But as this voter looks at that past, he sees that when she sat on WalMart's board of directors, she didn't change that companies predatory practices. And when she drove the national discourse on healthcare, nothing was accomplished. What did she accomplish as the senator from New York? Her years as secretary of state have been wholly eclipsed by John Kerry's record since then.
   Elections are about the future. For this voter, that requires a leader with a vision. That requires Bernie.
Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/opinion/campaign-stops/hillary-clintons-dutiful-slog.html

: re: New Technologies Give Government Ample Means to Track Suspects, Study Finds

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:02 AM
Subject: re: New Technologies Give Government Ample Means to Track Suspects, Study Finds
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   

   an Internet-of-Things would be a boon

to spies who don't care for your privacy

by putting microphones in ev'ry room

they'd mock the notion of Land of the Free

if George III commanded such a tool

the Colonies would still by in his fist

no matter how unjust might be his rule

there'd be no way the People could resist

"Leviathan" taught us we need a State

to keep our baser passions well in hand

but still left room that we could legislate

some Civil Liberties throughout the Land

once SkyNet's integrated in our homes

our dreams of Liberty collapse like foam



Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/us/politics/new-technologies-give-government-ample-means-to-track-suspects-study-finds.html?_r=0