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From: "J. Matlack" <[email protected]> To: "Howard W. Hallman" <[email protected]> Subject: REPLY FROM JIM MATLACK Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:40:47 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Dear Howard, YES. Sign me on to the (revised) version of the letter. JAMES MATLACK Director, Washington Office AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard W. Hallman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 11:12 AM Subject: Letter to Bush on nuclear issues > Dear Jim, > > Here sign on letter to President Bush on nuclear issues related to the war > on terrorism. I hope that you can sign it. > > Howard > > ### > > Dear Colleagues: > > It is a month since the horrible terrorist attacks on the World Trade > Center, the Pentagon, and the plane downed in Pennsylvania. We have > grieved. We have wondered why and what next. We have seen the U.S. > government treat the attack as an act of war rather than an international > crime against humanity. Various religious groups have responded in > different ways. > > As the war on terrorism and against Afghanistan have gotten underway, there > remains the issue of nuclear weapons, first in dealing with terrorism and > then in the broader perspective of global security in the 21st century. > With that in mind I have drafted the following sign-on letter to President > Bush. It deals with three issues: no first use, non-proliferation, and > nuclear disarmament. > > I invite a representative of your organization to sign. I suggest a > deadline of the close of business on Friday, October 19. If you have any > questions or comments about the letter, please contact me by return e-mail > or by phone at 301 896-0013. > file:///Z|/STAFF/Tiago/MJP/MU%20Email/MU%20Email%20PDF/11022-01%20to%2011121-02/11022.01.txt[5/22/2017 6:25:00 PM] > Shalom, > Howard > > ### > > Sign on letter for representatives of religious organizations. > > The Honorable George W. Bush > The White House > Washington, D.C. 20500 > > Dear Mr. President: > > The campaign against terrorism is raising new and important questions about > the role and future of nuclear weapons in the global security framework of > the 21st century. We would like to share with you our thinking on this > matter. > > First, we note that some of your advisors inside and outside of government > favor using nuclear weapons against terrorist enclaves and against states > that possess no nuclear weapons. Some advocate use of nuclear weapons in > response to attacks by chemical and biological weapons. This would > reverse the long-standing U.S. policy of using nuclear weapons primarily as > a tool to deter other nuclear-weapon states. We believe that the policy of > the United States should be no first use of nuclear weapons against any > state, nuclear or non-nuclear, or against any other adversary at any time > under any circumstance. We believe that such first use would be immoral > and would constitute a crime against humanity. > > Second, we note that in January 2001 the Task Force chaired by Howard Baker > and Lloyd Cutler stated: "The most urgent unmet national security threat > to the United States today is the danger that weapons of mass destruction > or weapons-usable material in Russia could be stolen and sold to terrorists > or hostile nation states and used against American troops or citizens at > home." The September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States emphasize > the importance of this finding. Therefore, we believe that a substantial > portion of anti-terrorist funds should go for full implementation of the > Baker-Cutler report. In terms of relative priority, we suggest that funds > be transferred from the missile defense budget to this and other urgent > non-proliferation initiatives. > > Third, we believe that the improved relationship between the United States > and Russia because of mutual concern over terrorism should be treated as an > opportunity to make substantial progress in improving the security of > deployed nuclear weapons and dismantling the nuclear arsenals still in > place more than a decade after the Cold War ended. Specifically we ask > you to implement your campaign promise to work with Russia to de-alert and > stand down the respective nuclear arsenals and to achieve deep cuts in file:///Z|/STAFF/Tiago/MJP/MU%20Email/MU%20Email%20PDF/11022-01%20to%2011121-02/11022.01.txt[5/22/2017 6:25:00 PM] > strategic nuclear weapons. Not only will this enhance the security of the > United States and Russia by lowering the possibility of accidental launch, > it will also reduce the danger that a renegade group could gain control of > deployed nuclear weapons and use them for terrorist attack on the United > States. > > We urge you to carry out these recommendations as a means of achieving a > safer and more peaceful world in the 21st century. > > Sincerely yours, > > Representatives of religious organizations. > > Howard W. Hallman, Chair > Methodists United for Peace with Justice > 1500 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 > Phone/fax: 301 896-0013; e-mail: [email protected] > > Methodists United for Peace with Justice is a membership association of > laity and clergy. It has no affiliation with any Methodist denomination. > file:///Z|/STAFF/Tiago/MJP/MU%20Email/MU%20Email%20PDF/11022-01%20to%2011121-02/11022.01.txt[5/22/2017 6:25:00 PM] From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:05:10 EDT Subject: Conference Contribution To: [email protected] X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 In which fund would you like the conference contribution deposited? Phil file:///Z|/STAFF/Tiago/MJP/MU%20Email/MU%20Email%20PDF/11022-01%20to%2011121-02/11022.02.txt[5/22/2017 6:25:00 PM] To: [email protected] From: "Howard W. Hallman" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Conference Contribution Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: At 07:05 PM 10/21/01 EDT, you wrote: >In which fund would you like the conference contribution deposited? > Phil Phil, Put it in the general fund. There is a check for $500 coming from Bethesday UMC, which you can put in the education fund. Howard file:///Z|/STAFF/Tiago/MJP/MU%20Email/MU%20Email%20PDF/11022-01%20to%2011121-02/11022.03.txt[5/22/2017 6:25:00 PM] X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 08:41:07 -0400 To: [email protected] From: John Burroughs <[email protected]> Subject: (abolition-usa) a new Marshall plan? Sender: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] October 9, 2001 A New Marshall Plan? Advancing Human Security and Controlling Terrorism By Dick Bell & Michael Renner Worldwatch Institute What do you think of this advice from a senior U.S. military officer and statesman about how the people of the United States should deal with a part of the world torn by war, poverty, disease, and hunger: "...it is of vast importance that our people reach some general understanding of what the complications really are, rather than react from a passion or a prejudice or an emotion of the moment....It is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs or motion pictures, to grasp at all the real significance of the situation. And yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment." The speaker was General George C. Marshall, outlining the Marshall Plan in an address at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. Surveying the wrecked economies of Europe, Marshall noted the "possibilities of disturbances arising as a result of the desperation of the people concerned." He said that there could be "no political stability and no assured peace" without economic security, and that U.S. policy was "directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos." As President Bush and his advisors review the results of the initial bombing campaign, they might also consider the relevance of Marshall's strategy to the moral and political problems America now confronts. Of course we should find the people responsible for the deaths of September 11 and bring them to justice, and work with other nations to root out other terrorist networks. But we must do so in a way that does not result in the deaths of even more innocent people, deaths that would only deepen the cycle of anger and rage that led to September 11. What is largely missing from the administration's rhetoric is recognition of the scale of the underlying problems that have to be addressed, regardless of how successful we may be in the short run in tracking down the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist assaults. As Marshall's words so plainly suggest, file:///Z|/STAFF/Tiago/MJP/MU%20Email/MU%20Email%20PDF/11022-01%20to%2011121-02/11022.04.txt[5/22/2017 6:25:01 PM] finding the terrorists should be part of a much more ambitious campaign, one in which the rich countries approach the appalling inequities of the world with the same boldness and determination that the United States brought to bear in Europe under the Marshall Plan. We don't really need to spend another dime on "intelligence" to recognize the conditions that leave whole countries in a state of despair and misery. Some 1.2 billion people worldwide struggle to survive on $1 day or less. 1.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.9 billion have inadequate access to sanitation.
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