Web Letters: Killing Civilians: How Safe Do You Actually Want to Be?

By Tom Engelhardt

April 24, 2009

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  • This is a wonderful article. If only every American could get their eyes upon it. I just want to know, as someone who agrees completely, who would rather have my safety as threatened as these Afghan citizens (at least in text), as someone who would rather steal everything I can in order not to support that taxes that fund our war, I want to know why you just ask people to admit their guilt. To feel bad... Why don't you call them to action, why do none of these articles speak of protest, provide an optional solution, provide something we can all do in order to help?

    We don't know, you know, we are so disillusioned with protest these days that we either need to go beyond our cynicism and just try, or find a new solution.

    I hate to say it, but without a call to action this article is as bad as the news reports hitting us with numbers of dead rather than faces and background information, family members left behind and a reporter outraged at its military's incompetence.

    nicholas enomis

    Scottsdale, AZ

    04/27/2009 @ 10:44pm


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