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I know my GOP will do well here in Oklahoma, whether or not it does well for the rest of the country isn't much of a concern, but I would like to see McCain win even though it could go either way.
I wrote this last night, got rather frustrated over continuing to see so much of the world screaming things like ''down with great satan america' and 'burn american flags that we make in our sweatshops' so forth like that and THEN they turn around crying and running to us when something bad happens to them. well quite frankly, what if something bad was to happen to us as almost happened with the credit crisis? huh world? what then when your precious america is in danger? the one that you curse and praise alternately when it pleases you? hmmf
In this, the end of the 1st decade of the 2nd millennium,
The attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center by Islamist terrorists and this year's presidential election are without a doubt the two most important events of this first decade. In the incredibly small time period the attacks happened, the world was transfixed, and in the time we have to cast our votes in this truly great election, the world is watching yet again. Everything else is secondary, from the invasion of Iraq to the credit and investment crisis the U.S. has just gone through. It further illustrates another point; one which is contrary to a point many believe in and hope for around this planet, a world without America or with a reduced American influence let it be through hard or soft power. Many people around the world will take the time to scoff and lay scorn upon our nation for our efforts however clumsy or even half finished they may turn out. No matter how great or exemplary our efforts may be on the world stage, there will always be someone there to protest for their most selfish reasons. In the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack; the world turned to the U.S., all eyes turned to the U.S. and what we would do. In the hours and hours of negotiating and plotting that had gone on during the credit and investment crisis we have just experienced; the world had held its breath, dreading what could happen, and what a surprise: fearful of a world with a weakened America. Fearful of a world in which America would not be there on the horizon ready to help when needed, and oh yes ready to be there when a scapegoat is needed for every other nation's skinned knee and tummy ache. It isn't enough for the world, an America largely stripped of its manufacturing base, a military several thousand soldiers shorter than what it should be, a nation under a dangerous influence of predatory and self righteous 24/7 news media. As the presidential election of 2008 comes to a close, the world watches even closer, whilst unaware of its need, and as ever unaware of the far reaching (both in time and space) implications of any successful U.S. presidential campaign. Let us see if the world learns something about the hope America brings forth in all of its endeavors beyond this election as we enter the second decade of this century very shortly.
Fearful of a world without a light to keep the darkness at bay. The existence of this nation is paramount to our world, for darkness is risked without it.
Kyle H.
To all-
No matter who wins this election, either McCain or Obama, so long as America is still able and at least willing to fight the good fight, there just might be a little bit of hope for us as a species since no other nation is capable of stepping up to the plate. I do not care how callous or "who does he think he is to say this!" this thought may seem, no joke people, I certainly do not expect China or the E.U. or some South America country to step up, ever, we're all there is. I can only hope that the record numbers coming out to vote in this election will be back again and again, and that their decisions be good.
speaking of... this was in a email:
"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption."
James Garfield, "A Century of Congress" published in Atlantic, July 1877.
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Easily people forget the fact that war is never easy, and will always be heart wrenching for many, to say it should not be so is to lie to yourself and your humanity, children will suffer as well as adults, from the war front to the home front, deal with it as best you can. "In a grim marker of the longevity of the war, children who were infants or toddlers when they lost a parent in action are growing up." From that statement you would think that all wars should last only a few days and that we shoot waterguns, stupid asses, just think of the Hundred Years War, or the fact that our so called World War 1 and 2, were not infact the first world wars fought by European nations, what of the children from those? In fact it was worse for them then, we have come far since then, but we need not get too far ahead of ourselves in all of this, and we must realize that we are still human and things will still happen, and to state that the current conflict is an anomaly in terms of length of time is utter nonsense.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ir
