Feb 02 2008
I like Barak more for what his election would say to the world and about us as Americans, than for his positions or his personality. I think Arun Ghandi stated something similar. I have seen Mrs. Bill Clinton (really, that’s her only credential, isn’t it?) operate for many years, and am unimpressed. The victimized female …
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Jan 12 2008
Adi wrote: I don’t have anything against you sending positive things about “Arab,Moslem,Palestine”. I definitely ask you not to send me any letter or article with diatribes on Israel,Israelis,Zionists,Israeli Army,Israeli Police,Security checking etc etc. +++ There are some here in the South who still refer to our American civil war as the War of Northern …
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Jan 11 2008
Gov. Huckabee, Apparently, you said something about Iranians facing the gates of Hell during your debate last night. I know you were being picked on last night, but when you fall into the trap of feeling like you have to emote the same neocon bravado as the establishment candidates, it reminds me that your foreign policy …
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Nov 27 2007
Apologies all, for plagiarizing some of your earlier thoughts (ie, who would Jesus waterboard?), but I could not let last Sunday’s profoundly ignorant editorial re. Barak Obama go unchallenged. I just sent in a lengthy response (below and partly cannibalized from earlier posts) and we’ll see if this one gets printed… Here’s the letter that …
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Nov 25 2007
In advance of the Teheran Conference of June 1969, fellow missionaries in Lebanon asked Missionary Virginia Cobb to prepare their position paper on missionary methods for work among Muslims. (See The Commission, November 1969, for a conference report and related stories.) Detained in Beirut, Lebanon, by illness, Miss Cobb did not reach Teheran in time …
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Nov 13 2007
Glad to hear your trip is going well. My Muslim friend here is a former imam himself, so maybe you can continue your dialogue when you get home. Wish my dad lived closer so you two could visit. I spoke with him this evening and he is quite concerned about the idea of using the …
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Nov 10 2007
This is one of those rare occasions where I agree with some of what Dershowitz had to say. Water-boarding IS torture. The real question is not whether or not a particular technique is torture, but whether or not torture harvests useful intelligence or is just indulging the sadistic impulses of some of our freakier interrogators. The …
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