Website review: An Open Letter To the Good People o...
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Infojnkee rated 13 months ago- . In our ADD, short attention spanned culture, we usually don't take the time to read lengthy articles, but this one is well worth it. The writer conveys the thoughts of many Americans, those who empathize with the Iraqi people and who abhor the horrors this administration has inflicted upon them. .
- BettyJoBradley rated 14 months ago
- This site displays "An Open Letter To the Good People of the Middle East From the We're Not that Stupid Americans." The letter says a lot. Sure, it has a bit of conspiracy theory intertwined among the issues it hits, and for me that's just fine. Mostly, though, the letter tells people from the Middle East that we are not all the crazy fundamentalist zealots that they think we are, and tells them that we know they aren't either. Nice.
- penman2 rated 14 months ago
As an outsider, this is the sort of attitude that we were brought up to believe typified Americans, rather than the violent, hate-filled aggression that seems more common nowadays. The article touches on other 'American Myths' such as: "Any American can become President". As Brits oppressed by a restrictive class system 30 years ago, this made America seem like a Promised Land, but the rolling past of the decades has shown it to be more true of Britain than the USA. Around that time, a prominent American put forward his view that the USA was very much a 'young country' and - despite its view of itself as 'advanced' - still had to go through the same sort of growing pains that older countries had done. To me, this clearly appears true. The USA now seems to have its Royal Families (the Bushes and the Clintons) at war with one another rather like the Wars of the Roses in Medieval Times here, where two powerful families fought for control of the country. Just think - in a country the size of America, what are the odds of two Presidents coming from the same family ? That alone should concern US citizens that something may be going worng. The biggest worry for me is that Americans have the tools to change thngs - the most important of which is democracy - but appear to be unable to work out how to use them. I could write much more, but read this article and think. You don't have to agree with all of it (I don't), but it shows that there still remains vestiges of the America we Brits were brought up to admire.
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