Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[chaslow53 AT aol.com]

In a message dated 8/24/2005 10:53:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Robert_Pauley AT oxy.com writes:

You are the first woman I have heard making the case for women in the middle east.

Not to inject a vulgar political consideration, but Laura Bush talks about that a couple of times a week.  And actually went over there .

 

Sometimes it's the little things: the Iraqi Olympic team won no gold medals at Athens in 2004 and yet--this time--none of them were afraid to go home.

 

Pat Robertson should never open his mouth except to change feet, and what he said about Senor Chavez was silly and stupid, and perhaps a crime.  And yet there is something a bit smug about having this discussion ourselves and doing nothing to insure that others can have discussions like this as well.  They can now have them in Iraq; there is no telling how much longer they will be able to have them in Venezuela.  After all, the world leader Chavez admires most, the Bearded One, has prisons full of political prisoners and a pretty low tolerance for dissent.

 

Chuck Lowry

Brooklyn, New York