war and peace

(Submitted to the CHH 6/4)

In “Islamists live by the sword” (Other Opinions, Chapel Hill Herald 6/2) Cliff May puts words in the mouths of Iranian leaders who, he claims, call for world domination and the murder of infidels. May continues: “The terrible conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries caused most Westerners to treasure peace and regard war as a hellish, last resort.”

Oh really!

The only “resort” to the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq was the Genghis Khan impulse toward world domination and the murder of infidels. This, amid cries to “Remember the Maine” siren call of 9-11. In regard to 9-11, the Bush administration was either criminally negligent or criminally complicit. In either case, 9-11 was most convenient for launching their war plans.