wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], 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.
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