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Unjustifiable evil
News, Postbag, Published on 17/10/2019
» Re: "'Political warfare' worries veteran critic", (BP, Oct 16).
Sinister tirades
News, Postbag, Published on 18/10/2019
» Re: "Silly conspiracy theories fall flat with young folk", (Opinion, Oct 17).
Fuzzy Thai logic
News, Postbag, Published on 19/10/2019
» Historically, fear of communist regimes has been used by politicians to keep them alive, strive and win elections. In the USA, politicians always create a hostile enemy and introduce a powerful fear factor to get elected. For most of the last century, the USA treated China, the Soviet Union, Cuba and Sandinistas as a threat to democracy and the whole world. First, it was Soviets, later China, and in this new century, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State became the new threat. And now they have a new enemy -- immigrants from across the border from Mexico and South America. A whole generation of Americans grew up dreaming about communists taking away their freedom and democracy. Sadly, even today a big lobby of Cuban immigrants in Florida keeps those fears alive.
Stop the arms race
News, Postbag, Published on 20/10/2019
» After a half-century of our "Advancing Partnership for Sustainability" Asean, why do we (Asean members) still invest huge money for ridiculous military devices like a jet fighter, destroyer and submarine but our precious forests are still destroyed by bush fire every year which produces a tremendous amount of pollution.
Misjudging FFP
News, Postbag, Published on 21/10/2019
» Re: "Thanathorn 'regrets' Thaksin court mention", (BP, Oct 19).
Lead from the front
News, Postbag, Published on 22/10/2019
» Re: "Military spend makes budget a hard sell", (Opinion, Oct 21).
No excuse for failure
News, Postbag, Published on 23/10/2019
» The trending fiscal policies and strategies that reduce spending on education are horrific if the country desires to transition into a functioning society within the digital age and the 21st century. The increase in military spending without a corresponding investment in education demonstrates perfectly what a lack of intelligence creates.
Case closed
News, Postbag, Published on 24/10/2019
» Let me conclude the air force investigation into the "servant soldier" (BP, Oct 21) for you.
Eroding freedoms
News, Postbag, Published on 25/10/2019
» In the last five years there appears to have been an insidious creep towards a police state.
Morally untenable
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/10/2019
» Re: “Not child’s play”, (PostBag, Oct 25). Unfortunately, in his efforts to defend the indefensible, Vint Chavala falls into a common corruption of those whose position is intellectually and morally untenable. He has either not read Yuval Noah Harari’s excellent books, merely copying what others have said about them, or he has failed to understand what Harari says, or he has committed a more serious moral and intellectual sin.