Word: sullivans
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...Andrew Sullivan's Essay "What I Got Wrong About the War" [March 13], in which he confessed his errors in supporting the war in Iraq, was a step in the right direction. The next step would be to ask for the resignation of all those responsible for such a devastating failure...
Should we commend Sullivan for confessing the neoconservatives' "huge errors" regarding Iraq, mistakes many of us identified years ago and for which we were branded unpatriotic, even while our children were preparing to be deployed there? No! Sullivan still attempts to justify the war and mentions the dead and wounded Americans only in passing. Now that he has confessed, he should go to a VA hospital, apologize to the soldiers there and then visit families of those who died in the name of incompetence, narcissism and cultural ignorance...
...Sullivan captured the thoughts of many Republicans and Democrats. His honesty deserves respect, but we wish that our President had spoken those words to us citizens, as well as to the world...
...Sullivan has an answer for that. Under the Carbon Management Task Force he set up in 2004, HSBC plans to boost investment in energy efficiency to cut emissions by 5% by 2007, using measures like automatically switching off staff PCs after hours. The bank will also be buying more of its electricity from green sources-the kind not generated from fossil fuels. Once it has come to grips with its own direct impacts, Sullivan suggests, HSBC may start offering advice to other firms interesting in offsetting their own emissions...
...Meanwhile, HSBC has already set its sights even higher. "There's nothing to stop us being carbon negative," says Sullivan, comparing HSBC's CO2 emissions to a monthly paycheck and offset credits to monthly expenses. "We could make purchases from time to time that will either take us back down to zero, or will take us negative for a bit and then we would come up again," he says. "Sometimes you're in credit, and sometimes you're in deficit." Now that's a bank talking...