Letters to the Editor
Dixon Webb
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Stand and spred American good will
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Madam Secretary,
Your job gives you an opportunity to assert your leadership. People all over the world look to you and America for guidance. Regardless of nationality, religion, wealth or resources, people everywhere admire America's success, our standard of living and the many opportunities for our citizens.
The Iraq war is not going well. The desert Arab civilization is very different than our own. People decending from their history and now living under desert Arab traditions do not have (or want) the values of modern society. It will take decades or even centuries of slow progressive education to bring these folks forward. The war in Iraq will not help in that regard. The desert arabs, with their tribal loyalties, illiterate majority, hateful religion (Islam), and wide spred poverty will not allow any democratic government to be imposed on them from the outside. It just isn't going to happen.
Ms Rice, the original purpose was to effect a regime change in Iraq. We accomplished that. The secondary purpose, argueably, was to secure the population long enough for them to establish an operating government. We have not accomplished that.
Instead, the Iraqi population has resisted all attempts to contribute to keeping the peace. They have persisted with inter-tribal conflicts, radical Islamic terrorism, and their ancient habits of stealing, lying and cheating. Their history has provided no guideposts to the future, and they, as a society, remain hundreds of years behind the modern world.
The entire middle east is a complicated international problem. President Bush is correct. The danger it poses to America and elsewhere needs to be contained.
(1) The Palestinians must obtain a land with borders and a government that can control and direct their citizens.
(2) Iran may or may not obtain nuclear capability. The point is that they must be constrained by the International community not to use it to expand their power over other nations.
(3)As long as vicious anti-Semitism remains prominant in the desert Arab world, Israel must be protected by all humane societies.
You, Ms. Rice, can influence all of these things - but - for some reason you have been rather silent? President Bush needs your support. Where is it? His policies are based upon good intentions, but they need to be revised by some of the pragmatic concerns outlined above. It's time to step to the plate. Give powerful speeches. Write solid proposals for helping the desert Arab community learn the ethics, morals, principles and values of the modern world.
Thank you.
Dixon Webb