Re: Interesting Perspective

2004-05-18 Thread Gary Denton
On Mon, 17 May 2004 21:29:40 -0400, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 10:31 PM 5/16/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: > >"Before the United States launched "the optional war" in Iraq, > >practitioners of nonviolence were advocating concrete alternatives that > >would have sought to depose Sadda

Re: Interesting Perspective

2004-05-17 Thread JDG
At 10:31 PM 5/16/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >"Before the United States launched "the optional war" in Iraq, >practitioners of nonviolence were advocating concrete alternatives that >would have sought to depose Saddam Hussein without war. One plan called >for a massive humanitarian assistan

Re: Interesting Perspective

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Land
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: But is the logic of warfare and occupation really wise? Does it really make sense that we can bomb neighborhoods, storm into people's homes at night, imprison thousands in degrading conditions without charge, and then assume that these people will love us? It worked in Eu

Re: Interesting Perspective

2004-05-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:31 AM 5/17/04, Doug Pensinger wrote: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0517/p09s01-coop.html or http://tinyurl.com/ypcov On Abu Ghraib and war itself: See through relativism of abuse By Earl Martin and Pat Hostetter Martin exerpt: "Before the United States launched "the optional war" in Iraq, pr

Interesting Perspective

2004-05-16 Thread Doug Pensinger
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0517/p09s01-coop.html or http://tinyurl.com/ypcov On Abu Ghraib and war itself: See through relativism of abuse By Earl Martin and Pat Hostetter Martin exerpt: "Before the United States launched "the optional war" in Iraq, practitioners of nonviolence were advocating