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MY VIEW: WEAR THEIR SHOES, IF YOU DARE
Santa Fe New Mexican, The (NM) - Sunday, April 2, 2006
Author: WINSTON STEWARD
Reading about the bloody rivalry between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, I struggle for a common point of reference. Watching friends and relatives dragged dead through the streets, dozens assassinated point-blank at impromptu checkpoints, holy shrines bombed. Not a common American experience.
But imagine being Afghan or Iraqi; imagine all of that right here at home. America as a poorer, smaller nation, with powerful neighbors. We’d possess one or two exportable natural resources and be quite dependent on international commerce. Imagine our own rivalry between North and South, exaggerated by the presence of lots of guns, which always seems to be the case when a country is poor. Imagine the Pat Robertsons and Focus-on-the-Family types, the Jon Stewarts and Ted Kennedys, all armed to the teeth and really, really mean.
Now, as happens with unstable, smaller nations, a superpower will step in and “help” this America, arm both sides, watch the bloodshed with a tsk-tsk and siphon off natural resources at less-than-fair prices. Then other superpowers would take interest, alliances would form, perhaps the Brits would place their bets on the Ted Kennedys and the French would support the religious conservatives.
During such times, all moderate voices in our nation would be silenced, anyone not advocating violence would succumb to two generations of “I-killa-you-family” and the reasonable among us would be either dead or abroad. No one would be left except the abortion-clinic bombers and the crazy-left Weather Underground. What happens next?
Enter another superpower that subjugates all of America under a brutal dictatorship, and the rest of the world sees its chance. They arm a scrappy band of hard-bitten, homegrown warriors, deeply religious, patriotic, hard fighters, and with enough foreign support, America’s patriots prevail against the unwanted superpower and the world rejoices.
The new government signs contracts with supporting nations, in exchange for arms to protect itself against its own citizens, and tribute flows to the mother ship. No one outside our borders asks why. Oh, and of course, Americans are still busy killing one another, settling old scores, while the Ann Coulters of the world editorialize: “Those Americans have a seeerious anger-management problem.”
What’s it like to be Afghan or Iraqi? Now you’ve just about got it.
So when I read the account of Iraqi citizens questioning why America suddenly sat on its hands while the Sunni and Shiite militants went at it, I recalled Bill Clinton hamstrung by allegations of oral sex while Bosnians and Rwandans were butchered by the thousands, and I thought of Nick Nolte, playing the drunken United Nations Col. Oliver in the movie Hotel Rwanda, burdened with the knowledge that the West planned to walk away and let the blood flow. All he could say to Paul Rusesabagina was, “You should spit in my face.”
Winston Steward is a concerned Santa Fe citizen, registered nurse, health-care advocate and author of the novel Eggshell Boy.
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Tue Feb 03, 2009 at 11:09:07 AM PST
As President Obama is taking a beating over the withdrawal of two nominees over tax issues, I’m trying to find references to the the practices of the Bush-era kleptocrats who I’m sure are laughing themselves silly over Obama’s “clean hands” approach. Are there sources for Bush administration officials tied to the industries they supposedly oversaw, and financial relationships with industries they supposedly regulated?
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by Winston Steward
Sat Jan 17, 2009 at 09:41:20 PM PST
I would like some input regarding organizations that are actually on the ground inside Gaza providing aid.
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All these letters sound like they were regurgitated by Obama speech writers.
Someone on Facebook named Barbara Brooks (a pediatric nurse) claims that Ellie Light is . . . her husband. She writes on her Wall:
Don’t think you can make a difference? Well, my husband wrote letters to newspapers under a pen name “Ellie Light” and over 42 newspapers published the letters and now Ellie Light is the most searched name on google. I don’t agree with using phony names, though. But then he isn’t a Mennonite . .
http://patterico.com/2010/01/26/ellie-light-revealed-and-then-revealed-again/
Friend: Barbara Brooks
The cat is out of the bag. Winston Steward is “Ellie Light” who had letters published in 60 newspapers. I don’t agree with using phony names and addresses, but I encouraged him to write letters under his own name. They are excellent letters that need to be heard, but not under false pretenses!!!21 minutes ago
http://www.facebook.com/winston.steward