I must take issue with the pope when he says “All religions want peace, it is the others who want war” (Associated Press story, Sun Journal, July 28). No matter how much we say we want peace, if we then go ahead and use war as a method to achieve peace, then continuous violent escalation […]
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Withdraw from violent confrontations
Might there be a connection between U.S. foreign policy and gun violence within these borders? While the United States funnels the highest amount per capita of the populations’s tax money of any country in the free world into its military and sends those professionals and their ordnance into chaotic situations that only become more chaotic […]
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G. Boardman: Violence leads to more violence
Who in the Middle East acts with more impunity, and who has more business to be there — ISIS or the U.S.? What is the difference between executing American journalists and assassinating non-combatant men, women and children by drone strikes or any other means of hurling lethal ordinance? We rain bombs on and ship arms […]
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G. Boardman: Clean up elections
“We the people” seems to have become “we the corporations.” How did it happen that we are now governed by those few who use us and the Earth we all share for their monetary and political gain? One hope I have is for “we the people” to demand that legislators in Augusta and Washington make […]
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G. Boardman: End the drone attacks
I am deeply ashamed and angry about the U.S. military’s deadly drone attacks. With those drones, piloted by men half a world away from their targets, this country is killing innocent men, women and children, along with militants that U.S. government officials have deemed worthy of death, militants known only by sometimes unreliable intelligence. Who […]
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G. Boardman: Sending aid would be more useful
If the goal of the United States is discouraging the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and aiding or kick-starting the peace process, then bombing Syria in response for use of chemical weapons in their civil war makes no sense. My suggestion would be to place armies of aid workers at every border crossing with […]