Reader Mail: Sunflowers for Peace
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5/10/2008:
I had meant to publish an entry about Vinnie’s “Sunflowers for Peace” seedling event back at the beginning of the month, but I honestly forgot to flag my email in Outlook. I apologized to him, but he still had a great day promoting his mission:
Sunflowers for Peace
“Thanks one and all on a great job. It was a fun afternoon and the message was received very well. On this, the first year for “Sunflowers for Peace” we collected $72.00 , all of which will be donated to the Carter Center. Hopefully, this will become an annual event , and more importantly , the last one in which we be calling for an end to the war in Iraq.
Unfortunately, President and Mrs. Carter could not attend, but I’m sure they were there in spirit. Thank you,Sir, for your inspiration and courage.
Wishing you all a happy and healthful summer. Peace.”
Vincent
“Sunflowers for Peace”
May 12th 2008 - 16:09:15 |
shiites pretty much want all other peoples on the planet to die. wait, no…they want to kill all the other people on the planet.
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May 12th 2008 - 16:41:10 |
honcho wrote:
Is Chop!Chop a reference to Rutgers football or something? It gets pretty old.
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May 12th 2008 - 16:58:57 |
honcho wrote:
only if it’s beach volleyball!
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May 13th 2008 - 08:43:13 |
It’s true – oh well – the significance of colonialism in the region cannot be ignored.
oh well okay wrote:
In fact most of the borders and “countries” in the region were artificially created at the end of WW1 in order to “divide up the spoils” of the Ottoman Empire between the victorious Allies, starting with the infamous, secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the British and French.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes-Picot_Agreement
“The secret agreement spelled out the division of Ottoman Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine into various French and British-administered areas. The agreement conflicted directly with pledges already given by the British to the Hashemite leader Hussein ibn Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, who had been persuaded to lead an Arab revolt in the Hejaz against the Ottoman rulers on the understanding that the Arabs would eventually receive much of the territory won. The Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Paris Peace Conference and the Cairo Conference were examples of the political hegemony of the European imperialist powers, which shifted borders and annexed territories, inventing dependency through mandates and protectorates.
… Some 12 states were created in the Arabian Peninsula and 22 states divided the Arab world as a result of World Wars I and II. …” [from an extensive analysis by Henry C K Liu, chairman of the New York-based Liu Investment Group.]
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FH18Ak02.html [see the bottom one-third]
The British, past masters at divide-and-conquer tactics throughout their colonial Empire, made sure that by the time they were ready to grant nominal independence, all possible rivalries were inflamed and every faction was at each other’s throats, so they could maintain control through some favored potentate, and also have justification for future intervention to “keep the peace.” Of course, as the world demand for oil increased, the vast oil resources of the MidEast were the major motivation for the West’s desire to maintain domination in the region – and Big Oil from the U.S. became a major player. (Can people actually talk about this part of the world and pretend that the issue of oil doesn’t exist?) At the time of the first Gulf War, some wag in this country half-jokingly wrote “how did OUR oil wind up under Arab land?”
To bring it up to recent years, do people really not know that U.S. government agencies sponsored religious fundamentalism for decades wherever it was believed it could be utilized to counter Soviet influence? Is the evidence so hard to find, for anyone willing to look, that the CIA quietly funded the Taliban in order to defeat pro-Soviet forces in Afghanistan? Some people posting here seem to want the world to be like the plot of a Disney Movie – or maybe an old-time Western, where you could tell the “good guys” from the bad by whether they were wearing white or black hats. But it’s not that simple!
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