Dear Editor,
On behalf of our speaker, Betsey Stone, I would like to thank the Daily News for running the article by Tara Clifton on Stone's talk at Ball State last Thursday -- "The U.S. War on Iraq."
There were several points in the article that need to be clarified, however. Clifton writes, "Stone said when Cuba overthrew its leaders, the United States was instrumental in helping it install another leader, Fidel Castro." What happened, in fact, was that revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro that overthrew the U.S. backed dictator Batista in 1959.
The article quotes Stone as saying "working-class people in America should resist war in Iraq because blue-collar laborers will get hit with raised taxes and other economic sacrifices." This was not her point. Furthermore, she would not see it as a good argument to convince working people to be against the war.
This is her argument (as she stated in an e-mail message to me): "We should oppose this war because it is being organized by the U.S. government, which represents the interests of the super-rich. This government is incapable of fighting a just war. The history of U.S. imperialism that I reviewed is one of dominating Third World countries in order to have access to their resources such as oil, cheap labor, trade and other economic benefits. And this same U.S. government of the rich is attacking working people's standard of living here at home. This is why we should not support their war.
Jerry Ulman
faculty advisor for the BSU Young Socialists
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