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Ray Perkins Jr.

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Hiroshima: militarily unnecessary

My old friend and mentor Bill Luti says "Thank God for Hiroshima" (Monitor letter, Aug. 8). But the Almighty would hardly be in need of thanks for the atomization of two cities if I'm correct about the bomb being militarily unnecessary to end the war. This is precisely the issue raised by Dan Williams ("The bomb saved millions of lives," Monitor letter, Aug. 7) who claims that,… 10

August 28, 2009
Letter

Nasty critique of Obama, stem cells

I am not surprised to see that Charles Krauthammer has not lost his penchant for nastiness ("Obama's shallow stem cell stance," Monitor Forum, March 13), although I am surprised to see so much vented on the new president so soon. Krauthammer denounces him as both "morally arrogant" and "intellectually lazy" and viciously attacks him for leaving open the legal possibility of cloning… 12

March 17, 2009
Letter

Irrelevant argument

Good to see Barbara Bonsignore's Jan. 26 reply ("Total vegetarian") to Ron Godbout's Jan. 16 letter attacking her for allegedly wearing leather while she condemns the wearing of fur. 4

January 29, 2009
Letter

A timely reminder

Aug. 6 and 9 mark the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan. As President Eisenhower said years later, a Japanese surrender could almost certainly have been achieved without nukes if we had required a conditional surrender allowing the emperor to remain - a condition we granted anyway. 0

August 8, 2008
Letter

What's needed in Iraq: prompt exit

We are told "the surge is working; we must stay the course." The problem is twofold: (1) It's doubtful that the surge can "work," whatever that's supposed to mean. It's at least as likely that we'll get a protracted civil war lasting a decade or more at an expense of several trillion dollars with no end in sight. And (2), even if it "worked" and we could reasonably hope to bring… 0

March 22, 2008
Letter

Unconvincing

Steve Winter takes Leo Sandy to task for his plea for a graduated income tax to address New Hampshire's "adequate education" mess ("State control has hurt education," Sunday Monitor letter, Feb. 24). But Winter does little more than abuse the man as a extremist out in "leftfield." 0

February 28, 2008
Letter

Plan for peace

Mark Taylor takes Leo Sandy to task for his "naïve" criticism about U.S. militarism ("A fine policy for life in Utopia," Monitor letter, Dec 19). Taylor says, as Eisenhower also said, we need an adequate defense. Of course. Sandy doesn't disagree. But his main point is that we need to start planning for peace, and not merely preparing for war, which can be wasteful, provocative… 0

December 30, 2007
Letter

Playing offense with defense

Mike Eckel's Associate Press piece ("Weapons Shield of October," Monitor Page A2, Oct. 27) is a remarkably ethnocentric bit of reporting, even for the mainstream U.S. media. He refers to the Russian president's worries about U.S. missile defenses in Eastern Europe as "the latest in a series of belligerent statements" after Putin had likened the planned U.S. forward defenses in Eastern… 0

November 5, 2007
Letter

A way out

A factor I don't think is being given proper weight in the discourse over what to do in Iraq is the fact that the U.S. invasion is illegal - a clear violation of the U.N. charter for which this administration must be held accountable. The claim that we need to stay there until things are better not only sounds unworkable, but it is also a bit like a burglar who refuses to leave… 0

February 19, 2007
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