wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> > <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> > >
> > > on 4/29/06 12:16 PM, shempmcgurk at shempmcgurk@ wrote:
> > >
> > > >>> Do you want them to leave Iraq and then go to Darfur?
> > > >>
> > > >> There's no oil there. Why in the world would we want to go?
> > > >>
> > > >> But actually, yes. I'd rather see billions spend on
> humanitarian
> > > > issues than
> > > >> on bombing a country to smithereens after we've starved them
> > > > (sanctions) for
> > > >> decades.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So, if I understand your "yes" above correctly, you would
like
> > the
> > > > U.S. troops to go to Darfur and use military action there?
> > >
> > > Possibly, but I don't like playing arm chair politician. If I
> were
> > in a
> > > position to totally immerse myself in these issues and had
some
> > influence on
> > > polity decisions, I might form an opinion very different than
one
> > I might
> > > shoot from the hip from my current perspective. In general
> though,
> > I favor
> > > humanitarian over military action as an instrument of foreign
> > policy. And in
> > > terms of the oil problem, I recommend we stop quibbling over
> > insignificant
> > > resources such as The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and
> spending
> > hundreds
> > > of billions on wars to secure oil we may never lay hands on,
and
> > shift the
> > > whole paradigm to energy independence. If Bush had done that
> > instead of
> > > pursuing this war, he might have been remembered as one of our
> > greatest
> > > presidents, instead of our worst, as will probably be the case
> > (see cover
> > > story in this month's Rolling Stone).
> > >
> >
> > Gee, is that the Rolling Stone cover story before or after their
> > Britney Spears cover?
> >
> > Ya know, I don't think I depend on Rolling Stone for my
political
> > content...
>
> The more fool you. This was an important article by
> Sean Wilentz, a well-known Princeton historian who
> writes regularly on politics for Rolling Stone and other
> major publications. Also writes lots of books, including
> the recent "Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to
> Lincoln."
>
> But maybe you mean you don't read Rolling Stone for its
> political content because it leans sharply left, not
> because you ignorantly assume its political content
> must be fluff.
Is there a difference?
>
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