>>If Americans are sick of the war, they’re also sick of the “antiwar.”
I read a couple letters to the editor in the Boston Globe which complained about the lack of coverage of
the anti-war rallies. They also published the following letter, which I was amused to see in a left-leaning paper:
I was holding a poster that someone had handed me at the rally. It said “No War in Iran,” and I was thinking I might post it in my front window.
A young woman in her 20s sat down beside me on the train and quietly asked if she could ask me a question: “Why are you against a war with Iran?”
My response referred to the disasters of our current administration, its misguided goals and failures, etc.
She replied, “I am Iranian, my family is Baha’i, and currently there is a holocaust going on in Iran against the Baha’i and against Christians and nobody hears about this. Eighty percent of the population in Iran is praying for a war to bring down the government.”
She got up to get off at her stop, and I thanked her for speaking to me.
The poster is sitting on my kitchen counter.
DEBORAH SILVERSTEIN
Cambridge
(Apparently she now sees another side of the issue!
There’s hope!)
The following letter was a bit more of the expected:
I TAKE issue with the Globe for burying its article about the antiwar rally on page 6 of City & Region (”10,000 in Boston rally against war,” Oct. 28). This was a nationwide event with regional demonstrations in 11 cities. It reflects public sentiment against the war in Iraq and it warned against the drumbeats for war against Iran. There is a lot of talk about whether newspapers will survive as circulation falls. When the populace is against a war waged by its government, and the papers bury news of protest, who is it that these papers represent? You printed the story with one photo that showed exactly four people. People were on the Common from all over New England.
The people are speaking out. Is anyone in power listening? Will they bother to dig to the inner pages of a newspaper to read about what we want?
PEGGY B. ANDERSON
Granby
NK vs. SK and we’ve been there 50+yrs. So much going on with these little dictator countries and the world as much as they hate the US, still look to the US to save their world.
IMaNutJob is a dangerous man. He has a way with words that bends the mind of the gullible. Both speeches at the UN were masked threats to the world. To read the critique of some...they were wonderful speeches of peace.
A liberal acquaintance of mine is totally sucked in by this guy. We really got into it last week. Every fact I gave her she came back with ...”well I don’t know anything about that.” I finally got real fed-up and told her to go learn more before she decides to defend the real devil in the world.