Julio Huato wrote: > I wrote: > >> With Obama, the danger of war and the peoples' >> opportunities to progress increase. > > I obviously meant: > > With Obama, the danger of war *decreases* and the peoples' > opportunities to progress increase.
why "obviously"? Obama wants to intensify the war in Afghanistan, after all. And a lot of the wars that the US has been involved in or started have occurred under Democratic Party presidents (Korean war, Vietnam War, invasion of the Dominican Republic, the war on Serbia, etc.) The current Bush has been trying to help the GOP's record, but it used to be that the DP was seen as the party of war. (Partly that was an illusion, since the GOP was involved in smaller wars, such as the attacks on countries in the Caribbean and Central America in the interwar period.) -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
