Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1ONjSP01909; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:45:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from AWilder106@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.21.) id p.1d0.38f828a (15877); Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:45:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from aol.com (mow-m28.webmail.aol.com [64.12.137.5]) by air-id07.mx.aol.com (v90_r2.5) with ESMTP id MAILINID74-0224184512; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:45:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:45:12 -0500 From: AWilder106@aol.com To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov, nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov (Multiple recipients of list) Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8594] Re: RE: War as a cross-cultural issue Message-ID: <0342F162.787E3CA4.0A349A3F@aol.com> X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: O Content-Length: 1465 Lines: 19 Colleagues: On March 11, 1992, Barton Gellman wrote an article for the Washington Post describing a leaked, classified, memo written under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz, then undersecretary for policy at the Defense Department. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney acknowledged that he and Wolfowitz "had played substanial roles in the document's creation and endorsed its principal views." I know about this because I read the newspaper and got a hint there that sent me back to 1992. A couple of more quotes: "....scenarios....included an American-led defense of Lithuania and Poland from invasion by Russia, wars against Iraq and North Korea to repel attacks on their southern neighbors..." Sen. Byrd: " The basic thrust of the document seems to be this: 'We love being the sole remaining superpower intheworld andwe want so much to remain that way that we are willing to put at risk the basic health of our economy and well-being of our people.....'" I listened to Sen. Byrd last fall and heard an up-dated version of this argument. For more hair raising, or at least informative, quotes, go to the article yourself. OK, so I was on my own treasure hunt, and I struck pay dirt, but I think teachers can instruct would be citizens on how to get useful information like this. Maybe it's too much, but policies do not come out of a vaccuum, and this is an example of how to track down a current issue to a written document. Andrea
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