Letter Of The Day

I join the sea of protest against Cal Thomas' assertion that peace activists are naive. Those who believe that war and violence bring peace are the ones who are naive and gullible.

Thomas claims that the peace movement mobilizes only against America. This is way wrong. As a peace activist fortunate enough to have been born in a democracy, I am immensely grateful for the heritage of freedom that generations of men and women have nonviolently struggled to bring forward. I have inherited the duty to further this heritage. My responsibility to confront the sins of my own government is greater than my responsibility to confront the sins of the government of Sweden.

Thomas' statement that evil cannot be accommodated is hogwash. Living in a country of savage inequalities, paying taxes for an illegal war and having a government bought by the highest bidder, I accommodate evil every day. Because the United States is a democracy, I am more responsible for it than I would be if I lived under a military dictatorship. Those who love America must protest.

Tom Fox went to Iraq knowing the dangers. Would that I and others could carry on with his courage and commitment.
— Deborah Fink, Ames.

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