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Letter to the Editor - Reno Gazette-Journal
July 30, 2006
Dear Editor, What would it take for expert columnist Tyrus Cobb
[“U.S. faces wide
array of security challenges,” One View, July 16] to use his
considerable credibility to call us to something new and different in the ways
of securing our nation’s place in the world? Instead he calls us to circle the
same old wagons of American dominance. Religions practice something called
“confession.” AA groups grasp the crucial role of fearless “self-inventory.”
Our standing in the world has plunged recklessly with our preemptory attack and
invasion of Iraq. Thus we risk
lending “cover” to what Israel does in Lebanon. We
risk adding
“tinder” to desperate conditions of peoples who see us offer only the “same old
same old” of invasion and occupation. Mr. Cobb, in the end we will squander one
trillion dollars on this war – one trillion dollars! – and untold good will,
trust and respect. How many splinters in the eyes of others you enumerate does
it take to obscure the log in our own? This administration does not “find
itself confronted” by these crises. Rather, it fails to confront itself! And
you advise us, politely, to shut up and do the same. Most of the evil done in
the world is less by malicious intent than by stubborn self-deception.
Thank you.
(Rev.) John Auer, Reno, 322-4564, 322-2013
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