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The swearing in of a president in January is an appropriate time for a new start for The United States. The people are confused about who we are and what we want to stand for in world affairs. The idea of an American Empire appears to have been crowded out by the difficulties incurred in the Iraqi war where we appear to make reactive moves against the Insurgent forces while casualty lists continue to grow. At the same time our allies are considering whether to stay there with us or return home. Our attitudes and actions in Iraq have isolated us from our former friends and has not generated any new ones.
It is time to acknowledge that the path we have been following has failed. We have killed a lot of people, destroyed a lot of property and maybe gained for some of us a sense of revenge. However, this revenge has come at a terribly high price.
We need to hear the new president declare the beginning of a new era of American history, a time when we discard the policy of hate and revenge and move toward universal friendship, cooperation and peace. We need to hear assurance that we will seek positive results in out policies and relationships.
There are sufficient good, positive goals for us to pursue. In our own country we could spend our energies and resources in improving our education system, designing and implementing a better health system and mending our transportation system to make it safer and more efficient. Caring for the environment could give us cleaner air to breathe, safer water to drink and enable us to eat the fish we catch without fear of mercury poisoning. The list of positive goals is much longer but these are sufficient to get us started.
In addition to the improvements here at home we would do well to take responsibility for helping improve the human condition in the other countries, friend and foe alike. Aids, polio, whooping cough and Tuberculosis are still plaguing the people of the world. We could do much more research and work toward eliminating them. We could assist others in bilateral and United Nations programs seeking peaceful ways of living together and sharing resources. More equitable distribution of world produce would be a worthwhile program which would help reduce the scourge of poverty in the world.
It could take some time for us to regain the respect and goodwill we have lost since our invasion of Iraq. So let us hope that our leaders will seize the opportunity that will come with the beginning of a new presidential term and begin the process of reclaiming our position of leadership in the world community. We are a good nation and our people will be happy to follow a leader who accepts this task.
Statement of these goals by the new president would go far toward eliminating the threat of terrorism in the world, and the entire population of the world would benefit. We in the United States would benefit most for it would also enable us to redeem the collective soul of our nation.
Jerry Clements 10/10/04
The swearing in of a president in January is an appropriate time for a new start for The United States. The people are confused about who we are and what we want to stand for in world affairs. The idea of an American Empire appears to have been crowded out by the difficulties incurred in the Iraqi war where we appear to make reactive moves against the Insurgent forces while casualty lists continue to grow. At the same time our allies are considering whether to stay there with us or return home. Our attitudes and actions in Iraq have isolated us from our former friends and has not generated any new ones.
It is time to acknowledge that the path we have been following has failed. We have killed a lot of people, destroyed a lot of property and maybe gained for some of us a sense of revenge. However, this revenge has come at a terribly high price.
We need to hear the new president declare the beginning of a new era of American history, a time when we discard the policy of hate and revenge and move toward universal friendship, cooperation and peace. We need to hear assurance that we will seek positive results in out policies and relationships.
There are sufficient good, positive goals for us to pursue. In our own country we could spend our energies and resources in improving our education system, designing and implementing a better health system and mending our transportation system to make it safer and more efficient. Caring for the environment could give us cleaner air to breathe, safer water to drink and enable us to eat the fish we catch without fear of mercury poisoning. The list of positive goals is much longer but these are sufficient to get us started.
In addition to the improvements here at home we would do well to take responsibility for helping improve the human condition in the other countries, friend and foe alike. Aids, polio, whooping cough and Tuberculosis are still plaguing the people of the world. We could do much more research and work toward eliminating them. We could assist others in bilateral and United Nations programs seeking peaceful ways of living together and sharing resources. More equitable distribution of world produce would be a worthwhile program which would help reduce the scourge of poverty in the world.
It could take some time for us to regain the respect and goodwill we have lost since our invasion of Iraq. So let us hope that our leaders will seize the opportunity that will come with the beginning of a new presidential term and begin the process of reclaiming our position of leadership in the world community. We are a good nation and our people will be happy to follow a leader who accepts this task.
Statement of these goals by the new president would go far toward eliminating the threat of terrorism in the world, and the entire population of the world would benefit. We in the United States would benefit most for it would also enable us to redeem the collective soul of our nation.
Jerry Clements 10/10/04
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