Wednesday, February 15, 2006

America's evil enemy may be just a fantasy

The following letter was published on February 15, 2006 by
The Cape Cod Times
Cape Cod, Massachusetts


What are we fighting against? Some call it an evil ideology. The Hamas victory gives rise to the question: maybe a theocracy? The protest over the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad reveals that cultural divide; theocracy on one side and democracy on the other.

Can a democracy really sustain itself in Iraq? Will it evaporate like the democracy in Iran during the years of the shah? If in the end democracy loses out in the Arab world to a theocracy, the offensive posture lead by the U.S. is indeed an expensive fantasy paid in billions and blood.

Let's hope after all the smoke and mirrors, and Karl Rove, this country will invest more in a defensive approach by securing our borders, investing in homeland security, and promoting Arabic and Chinese as required languages in the business and culture sciences.

I think it will take some time for all Americans to wake up to what we are fighting against. When we all do finally wake up, we might find that we are fighting against an illusion.

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