Letter to the Editor: Lines in the sand
By Kathrena Franks, Big Cabin on Sep 12, 2013, at 5:45 AM Updated on 9/12/13 at 7:08 AM
President Barack Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. President Obama blended the threat of military action with the hope of a diplomatic solution as he works to strip Syria of its chemical weapons. EVAN VUCCI / Associated Press
Letters to the Editor
In his letter, ("No One Listened," Aug. 31) Robert Leppelmeir made some inaccurate claims, inaccurate conclusions and key omissions. His intent was to exonerate George W. Bush for his war against Iraq.
Re: Baby Veronica story: Isn't it just a little odd that the same attorneys in Oklahoma City and South Carolina and the adoption agency are the same parties in the Desaray case in Oklahoma City and are now representing the Capobiancos.
President Obama’s unfortunate adlib
comment drawing his red line has
shifted as fast as the dunes in which it
was drawn; no new thing for that part
of the world. These lands have been
divided multiple times over the centuries;
their destiny shaped by forces
outside their control. I confine comments
herein to the 20th century.
During World War I, the old colonial
powers, the French, British, Belgians
and Czarist Russia, began dividing the
natural resources (euphemism for oil)
of these lands. The 1916 Sykes-Picot
Agreement drew lines in the sand
marking Parts A and B and divided
control among themselves. Note the
absence of the countries involved. With
peace and the death of the Russian
czar, the lines shifted but the ruling
powers remained intact.
Little or no thought was given to the
tribal and religious differences of people
left on a side with traditional enemies.
Hatreds built up over centuries, yet they
were expected to cohere as one nation.
Not surprisingly, these made-up
countries have been at war with themselves
and each other ever since and
their conflicts have spilled out over the
entire globe.
Therein lies the danger in drawing
lines of any color in anyone else’s sand.
Obama should stick to the teleprompter
in the future.
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Letters to the Editor
In his letter, ("No One Listened," Aug. 31) Robert Leppelmeir made some inaccurate claims, inaccurate conclusions and key omissions. His intent was to exonerate George W. Bush for his war against Iraq.
Re: Baby Veronica story: Isn't it just a little odd that the same attorneys in Oklahoma City and South Carolina and the adoption agency are the same parties in the Desaray case in Oklahoma City and are now representing the Capobiancos.
