Editor,
Reading the Daily Lobo on Wednesday, Feb. 5, I was reminded of an old clichÇ: guys with expensive sports cars are trying to compensate for a lack somewhere, hrm . . . below the belt.
The first article to catch my attention was the news brief about the plans to build the tallest building on earth at the ground zero WTC sight. I guess reading that really brought it home to me that the leaders and planners of the United States completely missed the moral of the Sept. 11 story: belligerently asserting that one is cocky, the biggest and the best is tantamount to painting a massive bull's-eye right between one's own eyes.
The second article that I noticed was from U-Wire (University of Nebraska) about NASA. The mindless drivel that Erica Rogers spouted was barely recognizable as history. I think the term "propaganda" is far more suitable in this case. The idea that the United States had the goal of making outer space "a sea of peace" is ridiculous. The sad fact is that where the United States government (and by extension military or military support) goes, a path of ruin and destruction is plain to be seen. The United States brought the Shah to Iran, Hussein to Iraq, bin Laden to Afghanistan, Pinochet to Chile, napalm to Vietnam, Suharto to Indonesia, the "Guardians of Democracy" and their massacre to El Salvador, the "contras" to Nicaragua and the current American regime plans to bring weapons into Rogers' "Sea of Peace" with the new missile defense system.
I guess the funny thing was that I got to thinking about these braggart nationalistic symbols. The WTC were two massive "mine is bigger than yours" representations and the space shuttle is no fewer than four gargantuan penis-like objects. Has our "one nation under god" come full circle back to the Grecian democracies that also engaged in phallus-worship?
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Adam Collingsworth
UNM student
