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[if !mso]> Hello Evelyn,
In not many ways would I contradict what your posting says because I’m sure they tally and I agree whole heartedly that, to give away strategic information of an ally country to whoever is treason however one might look at it.
Having said that one needs to understand, - and I say this because no one is watching this forum, it’s totally private! lol – Russia is an ally of the western world. There are no Russian intellectuals in Western Europe that say anything different and they all are right winged people since far before the collapse of the USSR. A huge mistake would be, to not recognize this as it seems to be with American foreign policies, B. O’s or any other republicans. If in Russia it needs years for communism to die out, and it is, … a darned site faster than socialism, America needs also years to re-adjust to the reality – if I dare say – and understand that American democracy is not best suited to the world: Egypt being a prime example of this reality, after Yugoslavia, Iraq and many more.
There is no specific system that is right and good for all, and thankfully so for it would do away with culture and in its own way a globalization that inherently all seek for.
A new divide seems very much under way because of this “all for democracy” absolute that is being imposed as a religion. And not realizing that the other “religion” as they call it from Arabic countries is using this fallacious terminology to migrate freely as they please.
Europe has gone along this path since the last WWII, and the US with their “We The People” which is not all bad, but does provide for too much liberalism (not the liberalism of socialism but the free liberality of personal rights instead of duty) are invariably on the same road.
Briefly said: It is not by ousting B.O., even if he should not only be ousted but jailed, that a solution will be forthcoming. America needs to have a landslide rethink of where it is traveling to if they wish to avoid their own forthcoming collapse.
My two cents from not only across a pond but include the very wide English Channel as well ;-)
Kindly.
Hello Robert, I always welcome a differing opinion and have no problem there.
Although there may not be a specific system that is right and good for all, I'll take ours over any other I have seen. I know it's not perfect and also a lot of improvements need to be made, but all in all, it is still the best in my opinion.
As to ousting B.O. - he should never have been elected and if more people had done their due diligence and taken a good hard look at this poor excuse for a human, of the thugs he had been associated with for years, and yes right down to the church he attended, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in now. But he promised change and most people realized, too late, just what the change was he had in mind, and a LOT of people now regret voting for him and that fact was proven in last November's midterm elections. I am sorry to say it took this situation to start bringing people out of their apathy and start questioning and asking for more responsibility from our elected officials and I am here to tell you that if these new people who were just elected do not do the will of the majority of the people, they'll be gone too. America has finally awaken, and as they say, most of us are madder than Hell at the shape things are in.
As far as Russian/Us relations, I'm not disputing what you say, but to be honest there is a lot I don't know about that situation. There is so much to learn and keep up with in this world of politics, it is mind boggling, to say the least and I don't think any one person will ever know all of it. I try to keep abreast of as much as I can, but sometimes it seems as though my thoughts just kinda run together because there is so much to learn and how do we decide what is true and what isn't. Do you know what I mean or where I am coming from on this?
And there are some cultures that have rituals or customs, however you want to say it, that definitely need to be done away with. I was just reading a couple of days ago where a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl, who was reportedly raped by a 40-year-old married cousin, died after being publicly lashed for allegedly having an affair with him, according to news reports. One news report says the girl was raped by a 40-year-old relative and that a village arbitration ordered she be whipped 100 times. The report said she "fell unconscious after nearly 80 lashes" and died after being taken to a hospital. Now to me this is barbaric in the worst sense possible. This was a fourteen year old child that suffered this horrible death. Lashed to death for being a rape VICTIM!!! This link is only one of several you can find about what happened: http://weaselzippers.us/2011/02/02/bangladesh-14-year-old-rape-victim-lashed-to-death-by-sharia-court-for-immoral-sexuality/ And this is part of Sharia law. I read this in an article a few days ago: "If Egypt is lost to the Muslim Brotherhood as the result of the current insurrection and rebellion, the implications for the U.S. and the world would be a major game change. A lot of nations who found it fashionable to oppose and criticize the U.S. as a big military bully are going to be looking to it to avoid an ugly, expensive, and dangerous future."
So in other words, the US is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't in my opinion.
Sincerely,
Evelyn