[FPSPACE] Looking for a vision

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

-----Original Message-----
From: E.P. Grondine [mailto:epgrondine at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:09 AM

> 2) Obama is tired of seeing Afghan arms killing innocents
>    around the world

 It seems as if the average US American is tired of sponsoring
 the killing of innocent Afghan civilians:

 http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/17/thinkfast-march-17-2009/
  
 Quote from ThinkFast: March 17, 2009: 

 A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that American support for
 the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is at a new low. Forty-two
 percent said the U.S. made "a mistake" in sending military
 forces to Afghanistan - the highest since the start of the
 war - and up from 30% in February and 6% in January 2002.
 Thirty-eight percent said the war is going well - "the
 lowest percentage since that question was asked in Sept.
 2006."

 Personally, while I support NATO's overturn of the Old
 Taliban regime in Kabul, I'm not at all happy with the
 neoconservative agenda of killing as many Taliban
 'enemies' as possible. Do you realize, Edmund, how many
 souls are victimized?

 And yes, the issue is highly relevant to fpspace, since
 the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have a direct impact on
 US funds available to the conquest of space.

 You and I agreed, I thought, that the 'real enemy' these
 days is not made up of a motley collection of unfriendly
 Bedouins, but rather a sinister posse of mountain-sized
 rocks hurtling around planet Earth with the intent to do
 serious harm.

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark