[Announce] Fw: "Road to destruction", Letter to the NCR Editor published Oct 31 by Brian Terrell

[Robert Waldrop]

 National Catholic Reporter
> October 31, 2008
> Letters to the Editor
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> http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/2323
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> Road to destruction
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> Colman McCarthy quotes Sen. Barack Obama saying, 
> "I strongly support
> the expansion of our ground forces by adding 
> 65,000 soldiers to the
> Army and 27,000 Marines" (NCR, Oct. 3). From 
> what barrios and slums,
> from what blighted farm towns will a President 
> Obama recruit so much
> cannon fodder? What lies will 90,000 more young 
> men and women be told
> to exploit their generosity and courage? What 
> empty promises will
> entice more of our children to waste their 
> futures, their lives,
> health and sanity for wars? And if these cannot 
> be found, how many
> exhausted and traumatized soldiers, Marines, 
> reservists and guards,
> will find that they are not going to be allowed 
> to come home and that
> their expected release dates will slide further 
> into the future? How
> many more innocent civilians who mean us no harm 
> in Afghanistan and
> Iraq will be murdered in fulfillment of campaign 
> promises?
>
>
> "A nation that continues year after year to 
> spend more money on
> military defense than on programs of social 
> uplift is approaching
> spiritual death," Dr. Martin Luther King told us 
> in 1967. Each
> president of either party that we have endured 
> since Dr. King's dire
> warning has only brought our nation closer to 
> spiritual death by that
> path. Both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Obama 
> promise only to follow
> their tragic predecessors down that road to 
> destruction. If we have
> not already arrived, both major candidates seem 
> hell-bent on being the
> one to deliver us there.
>
>
> BRIAN TERRELL  <Terrellcpm at yahoo.com>
> Maloy IA CW and Director of Catholic Peace 
> Ministry in Des Moines, IA