Letter: Bush shuns peace and our ethos

Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 | 9:06 a.m.

The Nobel Prize was awarded to U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellog during the Calvin Coolidge administration because he initiated, with French Foreign Minister Artistide Briand, the Kellog-Briand Pact, which outlawed war as a means of settling international disputes.

We now have an administration that blatantly proposes war as a means of settling disputes. America has been turned upside down; and I am sure that President Jimmy Carter, the present Nobel laureate, agrees 100 percent with the "kick in the leg to Bush" remark made by Gunnar Berge of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

It will be interesting to see how much more a certain foreign power and its agents in America will be able to corrupt the ethos and fundamental goodness of the American people before there is a reaction.

JIM ABRAHAMSON

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