Posted by
Steve on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:50:17 PM
Mike Adams writes about a letter University of Texas professors wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying the United states should force Israel to stop defending itself
here.
He suggests writing to these dunderheads and take them to task for their anti-Semitism and general lack of knowledge. I took him up on it. Here a letter I wrote in response, I suggest you read Mike Adam's column then finish this post.
University of Texas faculty;
I’d like to respond to your recent letter to Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice. You claim to be concerned about “our students, former students, and colleagues who remain in Lebanon and Palestine/Israel, indeed to all the citizens of these countries, because they are from the region and have no place else to go.” Yet you only concern yourself with Israel’s defensive actions. You don’t seem to be very concerned when we’re talking about Hezbollah firing Katyusha rockets into Israel. No mention is made in your letter of trying to disarm Hezbollah, just Israel. Your anti-Semitism is quite visible in your letter.
As for your contention that it is an “unprovoked and illegal war in Iraq” you either are ignorant of the history of the region prior to September 11, 2001 or you choose to ignore it. I don’t have an argument against someone who would say that the Iraq war was mistaken, or was not achieving the goals Americans set for it or was just plain wrong, but to make the claims you do there should be some evidence you can cite, and you fail to supply any evidence for your argument.
Just to get you up to speed, Saddam Hussein was the only leader in the Arab/Moslem world actively shooting at Americans prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. His regime routinely attacked patrols of the no-fly zones, which were part of the ceasefire agreement from the first Gulf war. He continually refused to meet the requirements of several U.N. resolutions, which I will list so you can see for yourselves the lengths the United States went to in order to get compliance from Hussein. I suggest you look up these resolutions and see just how far our government went to work with the United Nations to get compliance from Hussein. Not that you will, you are too impressed with your own opinions to bother with facts.
Resolution 687 (April 3, 1991), Resolution 707 (August 15, 1991), Resolution 1060 (June 12, 1996), Resolution 1115 (June 21, 1997), Resolution 1134 (October 23, 1997), Resolution 1137 (November 12, 1997), Resolution 1154 (March 2, 1998), Resolution 1194 (September 9, 1998), Resolution 1205 (November 5, 1998), Resolution 715 (October 11, 1991), Resolution 1284 (December 17, 1999), Resolution 1051 (March 27, 1996), Resolution 1134 (October 23, 1997), Resolution 1137 (November 12, 1997), Resolution 1284 (December 17, 1999).
If your letter to Dr. Rice is an example of your academic prowess I fear the University of Texas has all the intellectual rigor of a local kindergarten. I hope that the students under your tutelage have some other guidance, otherwise they are doomed to failure to thrive in the real world.