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<br>Also available for Kindle users if you have a library card for Los Gatos,<br>Santa Clara City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto. <br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:20:34 -0700<br>> From: wrolley@charter.net<br>> To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] monthly discussion re: Iran and Syria.<br>> <br>> On 8/21/2012 6:03 PM, John Thielking wrote:<br>> > Additional items for the agenda:<br>> > 1) We need to be sure to have our monthly discussion re: Iran and Syria.<br>> <br>> This discussion is important, but I think that it needs to be understood <br>> as part of a wider context, that of the "Drift" of American policy <br>> toward increased militarism.<br>> <br>> You may wonder why I put the word "Drift" in quotes. It is the title of <br>> a book by Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) that chronicles the changes in or <br>> attitude toward the use of the military from the days when Pres. Madison <br>> did not like the idea of a permanent standing army through the most <br>> recent times of Vietnam, Regan's use of the military in Grenada and then <br>> the wars with Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. "Drift" is available from the <br>> Santa Clara County Library system where the wait list is generally <br>> shorter than the number of copies available. Yeah, that is a <br>> recommendation to read it.<br>> <br>> I also would consider the relative importance of this subject and the <br>> long range implication of making it the center of Green advocacy. But <br>> that is the subject of another post which I will send a bit later today.<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br>> sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss<br></div> </div></body>
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