Mideast
Pushing Israel into negotiating with the Palestinians is tantamount to the United States being forced to “negotiate” with Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist movement. What would have been our response if Osama bin-Laden had “justified” his actions on September 11 by demanding nationhood for his organization, and the dissolution of Afghanistan entirely as a “country”?If Yasser Arafat cannot control his people now, neither will he be able to control them behind the boundaries of some state created to keep them from killing innocents.
Asking Israel to give back territory won in wars their Arab neighbors basically brought on themselves is tantamount to the United States being asked to give Texas and California back to Mexico.
And I have one more huge problem with all this: Why haven’t the Palestinians’ own brother Arabs forked over some of their own land and money to give their “brother” Arabs a Palestinian state? There’s enough oil or money or land (and sometimes all three) existing in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Libya and a host of other countries that consider themselves to be “Arabic” to give this group of fanatics a “homeland.”
Rick Finch
Oxford
Heart surgery
As I installed new auto tags on our family vehicles, I felt a state of depression, for our heart is all but gone. As a child growing up in Florida, when spotting an Alabama car with the plates that read “Heart Of Dixie,” I knew Alabama was the capital of the South. It now looks like that pride of the South is fading into the sunset as we go into this young 21st century. You need very good eyes to see the heart on our new tags and a mud splatter would cover it over. We need to keep our heart alive showing it across our nation as the cars and trucks travel our highways and byways.
At the rate we are going, we may soon lose Roll Tide vs. War Eagle. We might just as well draw a north/south line through Montgomery, let Mississippi have the left and give Georgia the right, and then let it be Bulldog vs. Bulldog. The Ole South’s flag is in lots of trouble, but our state cannot live without a heart. Let’s put our heritage back in large print before it is forever gone. Stars fell on Alabama, but it looks like the heart is also falling. We need heart surgery.
T. M. “Tim” Cowan
Piedmont
King of the clowns
Is it true that if attorneys who practice in his courtroom object to the calliope music and the peanut hawkers, Chief Justice Roy Moore will squirt them with the flower attached to his robe and then hit them on the head with his 4 foot long, red, foam rubber gavel? Just curious.
Dennis Horvitz
New York, NY
