Can Americans admit that the actions of the United States are at least equally as responsible for the world’s unrest as the actions of other nations? That will be the key question facing U.S. foreign policy decision makers in the next presidential administration.
One of the most interesting postings in the Comments Section of at this blogsite the past several days has been this entry from Mounir…
Dear Neale…
You wrote “Humanity is at a crossroad. Iran is firing test missiles.”
Humanity at cross road because Iran is firing test missiles?? how arrogant but typical of an American mind is this to say?
The US has killed in Iraq war over hundred of thousands of people, has been involved in so many deadly wars and unfair to many Middle Eastern Politics forever, take just less than a year ago it helped Israel bomb the hell out of Lebanon and side with Israel on every occasion against the Palestinians?
I mean after all these books and all the conversations that you had with God, you still where you are?
I would challenge you to get out of the box and speak the real truth, if you want to speak politics, speak the truth about politics and if you like to speak about God, how about ” Ways to get to God”… as of experiences and enough of this theoretical knowledge.
Yours with love,
Mounir
I would like to say to you, Mounir, that I see your point of view and I understand how you could feel that way. From the perspective of many, the U.S. has done exactly what you have said. From the perspective of many others, the U.S. has gone to war in Iraq to save the country from the despotic dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, and has lost thousands of its own soldiers in an attempt to bring a fair and democratic government to that country. The original rationale and motivation for even going into Iraq was to stop Iraq from threatening, and possibly attacking, the U.S. and other nations with its Weapons of Mass Destruction and its Chemical Weapons Storehouse. The fact that it never had either is, in the minds of many people, immaterial to this discussion…
I want you to know that I used the example of Iran testing missiles not as an indictment of Iran for doing so, but merely as an observation about the state of the world today – however it got to be in that place…
Do I believe that America, as much as any other nation, has added to the dangerous conditions in which the world finds itself? Yes, I do. I do not have to think “outside the box” to come to such a conclusion. I merely have to look at how this nation has responded to the terrorist threats manifested in the 9/11 incidents, and to its actions in Iraq.
The questions raised here in this blog, however, are largely not political, but spiritual in nature. Does God mean to tell us that all Muslims are going to hell? As well as all Jews, all Buddhists, all people who are members of the Ba’haii faith, all those who practice the Shinto religions…all people everywhere who are not Christians? Is this What God Wants?
That is the question at hand, Mounir. And, as well, does Allah, blessings be upon Him, say that female children should not be allowed to go to school, that women must cover their entire bodies from head to toe when out in public and may not sit next to a male who is not a brother or husband or blood relative? Does Allah, may He be honored always, say that all men must wear beards, and that no music except sacred songs may ever be played at any time in any place?
What does Allah, bless his Holy name, want, Mounir? That is the subject of the inquiries here. I appreciate your political observations, but I would be equally interested in your spiritual ones.