Letters to the Editor
FredrickBernanke
Published Letters: 170 Editor's Choice: 8
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Kamiya: Al-Qaeda is Still Recruiting, Sign Up Guy!
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. If the Obama campaign has not used his Church affiliation in any manner whatsoever to enhance his image, Wright's hate-filled rhetoric is completely irrelevant to the presidential race.
2. If Barack has run as a "good god-fearing Church member, then Wright's ramblings deserve scrutiny.
Let us assume point number 2 reflects the reality. I personally don't know if it does, but am sure many of Salon's readers will be able to set the record straight if it is not.
The President of the United States should not be a person who accepts the view that the 9/11 attacks were a case of "chicken's coming home to roost."
Such an individual should enlist in the Al-Qaeda movement forthwith and begin chopping thieves hands off, stoning women to death who associated with a man without the explicit permission of her brother or father, slice the heads off adulterers and generally get with the program espoused and implemented by the Taliban during their wonderful reign in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden's beef with the US (and Western Democracy, in general) is the hegemonic success of our politico-socio-economic system throughout the world, most of which has occurred without a shot being fired, and certainly without a head being sawed off a living human being.
Under an Al-Qaeda-ruled government, Wrights tongue would be pulled from his mouth with a set of pliers.
The cruelty and injustice of US society to African-Americans is beyond dispute and will forever be a blot on the nation's history...and that racism continues to this very day, minus the unspeakable physical violence committed against African-Americans in the US's past. The racism today is non-violent and much more subtle.
But has remarkable progress been made by the African-American community? Ever hear of people like Cosby, Oprah, Powell, Rice (some of the most influential citizens in the country), and finally one other African-American name some readers may be familiar with: a man standing on the verge of becoming President of the United States, Barack Obama himself.
Kamiya's equating the mindless, demagogic and simplistic ramblings of Wright (and implicitly of Bin Laden) with words uttered by Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln demeans the latter two, and displays the ignorant, self-loathing America-hating of Kamiya and other knee-jerk liberals.
Finally, The Iraq "War" is an unmitigated catastrophe, as is the entire approach by this administration to the very real threat posed to the West by Islamic fundamentalists "who love dying more than Westerners love living."
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@tom payne
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Inane or not, my post sure got your blood boiling. Unfortunately, none of it reached your brain.
Guys like you now have that glorious option available, since you hate this country so much: Sign Up with Al-Qaeda.
[And if you had the patience (and intelligence, which you obviously don't) you would perhaps have noticed that I in no way assert the USA is anything approaching perfection, currently or in the past.
Also, if you fucking use that fred-dick thing again, I'll never give you the honor of a reply---in fact, I don't really know why I am reply this time...it's like debating a Doberman Pincher.
Good luck, your poor thing.
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@TP
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since you didn't use that fred-dick thing, you deserve a reply.
Congratulations that you have relatives with better vocabularies than do you, but so do most German Shepherds.
No thesaurus used when I write---I'm just much smarter than you.
[You started this personal attack thing, but you picked the wrong guy to do it to. This is just fun to me, especially since you're so obviously ill-equipped to engage in a word-battle with me or any middle school graduate, for that matter.]
Let's stop wasting Salon space, please.
PS-Thanks for you Nam service and, honestly, good luck.
LAST REPLY TO YOU
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@Taleisan
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're making enormous assumptions in your citicisms.
I had hoped that my original post made clear my judgment regarding the current administration, namely, that its reign has been catastrophic, primarily in the realm of foreign policy, but also in its inadequate response to the current banking/finance crisis.
The point of the post was that Wright was neither properly defining the issues or their causes, and surely did not offer any particular solutions.
The fact that I consider myself (and you)to have been lucky enough to enjoy the benefits of Western culture and prefer said culture to the alternative represented by Al-Qaeda, does not mean I harbor the "America uber alles" view you impute to me.
Again, I thought my post clearly stated that the US--like all other nations--has both historical and current behaviors that I find both reprehensible and unnecessary.
Finally, I hardly think Barack Obama shares Wright's worldview, nor do any of the other serious candidates.
I apoligize if my original post gave you the wrong impression of what I was trying to convey,...that's my fault.