One year after the invasion of Iraq, the world doesn't seem a safer place at all [March 22]. Murderous attacks by terrorists all over the globe show that they are everywhere. Whether Americans were told the truth about Iraq from the get-go is something for the investigative commissions to decide, but it is horrifying that the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis and hundreds of coalition troops have served only to increase the threat of global terrorism. When will it end?
BECKY BURGWIN
Pittsburgh, Pa.
"Hello Becky, I am a retired Frenchman and I read a letter with your name in Time and I think it is you who wrote this letter. I was wanting to tell you how much I am all right with you. To your question " When will it end? " I am afraid there isn't any reply. The world is entered in a phase of convulsions that nobody can control. Too many persons are interested by the violence, terrorism is outside of all logic. How to stop this tidal wave conceal behind a population apparently neuter, often kindly or compelled. Responsibles are way out of the range and have the use of troops pratically in the whole world. Like a veteran of the war of Algeria I know how much is difficult to struggle against the terrorism and often I think of American soldiers in the trap of Iraq. Forgive me to have taken the freedom to write to you and excuse my bad English.
Jean"
We need to get some Europeans over here to teach Americans how to protest. You'd think we'd have it in our blood.
Humor:
As of last month, there is nothing humorous that can be said about these guys; The Abu Ghraib scandal has finished us. At least it has finished anyone in America who is in his or her right mind and knows that we, The United States of America, have been exposed for the brutal, lying hypocrites that everyone thinks we are. We are torturing, or as Rush Limbaugh puts it, hazing, a bunch of Iraqi civilians with no more link to Al Qaeda than I have. They just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time after their country was invaded by a bunch of brutal, lying hypocrites. And all the while our young soldiers, who willingly enlisted to fight for their country, are being killed by a bunch of brutal, lying hypocrites who, if they weren't so deadly, would resemble the 3 Stooges.
Apologies to the real 3 Stooges who no doubt would be doing a better job than these guys.
Ms. Burgwin's writings have appeared in Time, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Counterpunch, AlterNet and OpEdNews as well as several other online Op Ed sites. She is on the Board of Aid Afghanistan and is a contributor to The Peace Project in Assisi, Italy.
