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Thank you for Barlett and Steele's historical analysis of U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis oil. U.S. citizens need to understand the sordid history of our involvement in the Middle East and why our policies have led to widespread and virulent anti-American sentiment in the region. Sadly, the current Iraqi quagmire is yet another disastrous chapter. Our self-serving leaders continue to promote polices of deception and violence. We know now what the whole world sees: this war was not about weapons of mass destruction threatening our homeland but, once again, about securing oil for our wasteful...
...Nikki Usher: enjoy your sordid affair with the “Fellowship of the Miserable...
Polanski’s life has been peppered with odd tragedies. Yet the most tragic misfortune is his sordid, criminal act committed against a 13-year-old girl. There were six charges leveled against the director involving giving drugs to the girl and engaging in seedy sexual acts. To this day he can’t set foot on U.S. soil for fear of arrest...
...will the public. Americans like their wars to have clean endings, with ticker-tape parades and a memorial on the Mall in Washington. But guerrilla wars aren't like that. Parents of fighting men in the old colonial powers got used to hearing that their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or--like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week--in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always recoiled from accepting a slow, endless drip of casualties from contests whose stated...
...will the public. Americans like their wars to have clean endings, with ticker-tape parades and a memorial on the Mall in Washington. But guerrilla wars aren't like that. Parents of fighting men in the old colonial powers got used to hearing that their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or - like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week - in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always recoiled from accepting a slow, endless drip of casualties from contests whose stated...