ADYZ --- --- 15.31:45 7.12.2004
Je to sice delší, ale dejte si to ;-) Přišlo kamarádovi od vzdáleného příbuzného z USA. Začátek mailu se týkal rodiny a podobně (asi deset řádků), takže není podstatný, následující "úryvek" je rakce na to, že jim kámoš napsal, že viděl Fahrenheit 9/11 a že mu to přišlo celkem zajímavé:
...Our second son, Monte, is back from Iraq, but our third son, Tom, is now over there. For a while, he was at a base at Ramadi, but, now, he is at a base outside of Fallujah. He is a "contracting officer" and mostly in charge of supplies, so he stays very busy on the base. Since he is not in infantry, he does not have to go out into the Iraqi population. That pleases us just fine. He will be over there until next March or April.
Right now, his wife, Diana, and little year old son, Logan, are here in Texas, with us and with her parents, visiting during the Christmas period. We all get e-mails from Tom almost every day. Since he is a supply officer, he has a laptop computer and can contact us, when he is not busy. Mostly, however, he is very busy.
By the way, we sent a few photographs to Lenka, so you will need to ask her to show them to you. Maybe she has already done so.
Now, to your other questions about my opinion about the war in Iraq, about some other politcal ideas. I will try to keep my answers short.
First, I am mostly an INDEPENDENT, but I vote mostly Republican. Long ago, my gand-parents were Democrats and so were my parents. But, gradually, my parents and myself became mostly Republican. Here is the reasons. I believe in freedom and liberty, while the Democrats seem to believe in government control of people. And, I do not believe in abortion, in gay marriage, in socialism, therefore I can no longer vote Democrat. There are a few other reasons, but, the above explanation will do.
I feel badly that you all, in Europe, are being exposed to Fahrenheit 9/11. It is full of lies and propaganda. It was designed to get Americans to vote against George Bush, but it did not work - Americans are good at seeing the truth in things, and Michael Moore is just a Democrat propagandist. When I think of him, I think of Paul Joseph Goebbels, the official propagandist of Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. Of course, Goebbels worked for a dictator and had complete control of all modes of information dissemination. If anyone had opposed Goebbels, he would have been killed. At least, In America, Moore had to compete against the truth, and the truth won.
I only wish that Europeans were seeing the big picture about the wonder and goodness of American people. Please remember that Americans are descendants of immigrants from all over Europe, the British Isles, and, now, many parts of all nations of the world. When I read the names of people in America, they are Czechs, Poles, Germans, Brits, Scots, Irish, Swiss, on and on the list goes. Yet, many people from other parts of the world are starting to think that Americans are someone bad, someone to hate. That bothers me greatly, because it should not be happening, you all should not be influenced by propaganda.
Next, we voted for President George Bush. He is an honest, straight-talking, good leader. When he says something, you can believe it. Of course, we are very conservative, and President Bush can be a little liberal to suit us, but that is politics, the art of compromise.
Here is the big question - In these modern times, HOW DOES THE REST OF THE WORLD DEAL WITH ISLAMIC TERRORISTS THAT HATE THE WESTERN WORLD AND WANTS TO DESTROY IT? Not long ago, the people in the Middle East could have their little tribal wars and not affect the rest of us (us being Europe and America). They could hate us, but they could not act on their hatred.
Now, with modern transportation, modern communication, modern technologies regarding bombs, chemicals and biological weapons, they can finally act on their hatred for all of us. The attack on the World Trade Centers on 9/11 is a perfect example of how they can be successful. If George Bush and America had not taken action in Afghanistan and Iraq, I am certain that there would have been more attacks by now. Even as it is, there were the attacks in Spain, and there have been other attacks that were stopped.
It is very simple. When there is a bully, the best way to deal with that bully is to attack him and stop him from hurting other people around him. If he is only warned, he will laugh at the warnings and keep being a bully, until someone has the courage to fight him and stop him.
As for Iraq, France, Germany, Russia, and China did not want to see Iraq attacked because officials in each of those countries were getting huge payoffs of money from Saddam Hussein in exchange for voting against sanctions against Iraq. I hope you all are getting all the truthful information about the "oil for food" scandal that has hurt the reputation of the United Nations and Kofi Annan. If you are not getting this information, what little I am telling you may confuse you.
Once, when Lenka sent us a package, the gifts were wrapped in a Czech newspaper. Of course, I cannot speak or read Czech, but I was impressed with the newspaper- it seemed to be as good as any American newspaper. I can only trust that the news people in the Czech Republic, be they TV news, magazine news, or newspapers are free to tell the truth and have a burning desire to be truthful. There is no way for me to know whether or not that is happening.
I know that, when I have read the history of the rise of the Nazi Party, the rise of the Japanese in the Pacific, all prior to World War II, there were plenty of times that action back then could have been taken that would have prevented that terrible war. And, there were things that could have been done to prevent the growth of the Communist Party and the USSR. So, in these modern times, the world must stop dictatorships from getting large and strong enough to hurt their people and threaten the rest of the world, finally ending up as another World War.
Well, I tried to keep my answer short and simple, and it is difficult to do so. There are people everywhere that think about these things all the time, even write books and teach in universities about local, national, and world politics. Yet, they can make it too complicated. They can be so smart that they are actually very stupid. The main thing that people want throughout the world is freedom and liberty, to be free from being controlled by other men. No man has the right to control another man.
And, the best book to read about all that is the Holy Bible, the greatest book about freedom there is - especially the New Testament and the words of Jesus Christ. I hope you and Lenka and your family have it in your home and have read it, read the words of Christ. My grand-mother, Vera Hnatkova, was a fine Christian woman and worked in her local Czech Church. And, true Christianity is about LOVE, not hate. It is difficult to practice true, unselfish love, but we must keep trying...
// z Masakru