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R Renfro — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:31:22 GMT

If Lantos was grateful for the opportunity given to him by America he certainly didn’t repay it.
He may have served his Jewish constituents loyalty to Israel well in his office of public trust but he did not act on or serve the once admired principles of the United States.
How does one judge a man like this?
Do we add his good works and then subtract the lives he has cost in the Isr-Pal conflict he supported all thru the years?
Not to speak ill of the dead let us just say he was a man of selective morality.
I don’t know how to judge selective morality.

R Renfro — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:31:52 GMT

It is clear to any detached observer that if not for violent resistence from Hamas and others over the years Israel would have already rolled over Palestine and consumed it competely.

Since this conflict, and most especially America’s part in enabling Israel’s occupation , hit my radar screen 7 years ago I have followed and looked at this in terms of what would I do if I were a Palestine? How would I react to the provocations, the land grabs, the strangleing of my country, the decimation of my livihood, the stealing of my resources, the collective punishment and humilations, the targeting of my unarmed children?

I have thought about this and wondered if Israel’s promised land had been part of Maine or South Carolina and they had used the same tactics here as they have used in creating their Greater Israel in Palestine what would have happened?

I am 99.9% certain that if that had been the case, Israel and the Israelis would have become extinct in short order and nothing but a small footnote in history.

I can’t condemn Hamas for their actions, I would do the same thing and probably more and worse in defense of my land and my family.

R Renfro — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:06:02 GMT

I wasn’t in Vietnam but my older brother was a Marine Lt. Straight from college to Qua. Va. to Vietnam. At 21 he went thinking he was doing his duty as a man and an American. I followed the war thru his letters for a year. I remember the exact one that made me realize all illusions of any victory or even just cause were gone and his fight was to keep as many of his men alive as possible.
When he came home he gave away his uniforms, his three purple hearts, his 2 bronze stars and his silver star. The only thing he would ever pick up a weapon for again or let his two sons fight against would be an invasion of the US proper.
Vietnam showed us what our government was and made us rightful cynics.