Open Thread and Diary Rescue

(Diaries tonight are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

Four new diarists top off our rescue of diaries writing about hope, politics and war with good analysis and a few creative suggestions.

This evening's Rescue Rangers are jlynne, Got a Grip, ksh01, vcmv02, NYC in exile and Dump Terry McAuliffe, with Patriot Daily as editor.

• First-time diarist kuulray reminds us that a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describing Peace on Earth was written in the midst of the Civil War in Peace on Earth- There is Hope. It is a particularly poignant reminder for this year as war rages in Iraq.  (vcmvo2)
• Second-time diarist kindler rebuts Rep. Goode's recent intolerant comments with a little history lesson on how Virginia spread the idea of religious tolerance across the world years ago in Virgil Goode vs Thomas Jefferson.  (vcmvo2)
• There's been much discussion about military action against Iran, but 3rd-time diarist james risser raises another possibility: Will Bush Invade Syria Next? (Dump Terry McAuliffe)
• Fifth-time diarist demetroula's son is a twenty-year-old marine stationed, as you read this, in Fallujah. In Iraq: Terror Cognita for Military Mom, she gives a glimpse into a military mother’s thoughts and fears as the grim countdown grinds on to the three thousandth US fatality. (ksh01)
• Richard Cranium counterbalances the litany of things we are fighting against by poignantly reminding us just what we are fighting for in America the Beautiful. (jlynne)
• GreyHawk discusses the criminality of the invasion of Iraq and provides three steps to extricate us from this quagmire in The New Way Forward: Strategic Withdrawal. (NYC in exile)
• litigatormom takes "the Lie Volcano" to task for applying the Sunk Cost Fallacy to Iraq in Condi: Iraq Catastrofuck A Worthwhile Investment of Lives and Money. (jlynne)
• In A Calculation: How Many Trillions of Dollars of Environmental Damage Will IGCC Coal Cost?, diarist NNadir compares the environmental cost of proposed IGCC coal plants with that of nuclear energy. The diarist's use of a film review and some history of the Manhattan Project makes for a fascinating read. (jlynne)
• The War Machine Keeps Turning is heathlander's summary of U.S. and Israeli sabre rattling against Iran. Will we strike, or is the question simply, when? (jlynne)
• In this interesting weekly series, mkfox takes us on a journey back in time in Forgotten Founding Fathers: Pierre Charles L'Enfant. (Got a Grip)
• daveinchi informs us that the US is the top jailer of the world, which is a grim fact worsened by the sexual assault and recidivism that cry out for prison reform in LOCKDOWN!! Today's IncarcerNation (Pt. 2).  (vcmvo2)
• Stephen Lendman is an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy. Just how outspoken? The diary's title, Shouting Truth to Depraved Power (and Its Unwitting Accomplices), says it all. It's a cyber interview of Landman by Jason Miller. (Dump Terry McAuliffe)

 
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