Your candidacy for the presidency initially inspired a great deal of optimism; however, I have been disheartened recently by a number of positions you have taken especially in the realm of foreign policy. You have recently publicly embraced the doctrine often referred to as exceptionalism – the idea that the United States is somehow entitled to behave on the international arena in ways that we would condemn if other nations behaved in an analogous manner.
Application of this worldview by your administration has now become quite evident. I refer here to the use of robot military drones to attack suspected terrorist positions with deadly force anywhere in the world that is deemed necessary regardless of national sovereignty or national borders often causing the deaths of innocent civilians. These attacks have been launched against peoples in Pakistan, Somalia, Tunisia and Afghanistan. In addition, you have apparently approved of extrajudicial killing of even American citizens abroad who are suspected of terrorist activity.
This is the behavior of a rogue nation – these acts are justified by a right of power without the requirement of the rule of law. This is not only morally reprehensible, but it also sets a precedent that other sovereignties can emulate whenever they feel justified by what they believe are national security interests.
The further escalation of the war in Afghanistan will, in my judgment, ultimately damage your presidency, for there is no real winning or losing in this conflict. Furthermore, the continued use of American military power In Afghanistan, our extraordinarily large military budget that overshadows the rest of the world, our extensive bases throughout the world are striking examples of our will towards empire and the destabilizing effect it has on the prospects for world peace.
I urge you, Mr. President to reconsider your foreign policy priorities and incorporate the same humanitarian and compassionate principles that you have utilized so effectively within the framework of your domestic agenda.
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AMEN ..!!
...i suggest an alternate reality...that congress and the presidency are merely a "dog and pony" show to distract us from the truth...the truth that multi-national global corporate fascists control our "government" and the joint chiefs of staff...but no, that could not possibly be true...or could it?
...and thank you for your insightfull comments on the sad truth of our world.
Americans like to thing of themselves as the ``City upon a Hill.'' There are great things about the US. The Invasion of Iraq is not one of them. Neither, the use of weapons outside US borders, when war has not been declared.
Sighs.........I was worried at the time of Obama's election that all was not as it seemed.
I agree with your truth Oberon, however I have had a couple of interesting conversations with internationally respected psychics that lead me to believe an alternative reality is unfolding in other arenas.
Please remember guys One World, the US is in as much of a fix because of the multi-national global corporate fascists as everyone else, perhaps moreso, in ways, as a nation you seen to have been strangely accepting of political corruption.
We Brits certainly found it strange that Obama referred to BP as British Petroleum, as if a multi-national global company had anything to to with US :>)
Thank goodness that I do have hope and can see the alternative unfolding as if by magic,
http://motherdamnable.blogspot.com/2006/01/story-so-far.html
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