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Just sent a letter to the new President of America, Barack Obama, through the Avaaz organization.
Which I did through this link: http://www.avaaz.org/en/million_messages_to_obama
"Dear Barack Obama,
Congratulations on your victory in the presidential elections. I hope that your message of change will really be more than the empty words and promise we usually recieve from politicians.
I may not have followed the elections and the various agendas propagated during it, but I've heard a great lot about you, Mr. Obama. Here in Sweden you're lauded for your liberal and humanist views and you are almost described as a saviour of a world in crisis. While there are lots of exaggerations and high hopes about you and your coming term right now, I know that you cannot possibly solve all of the world's problems. Still, with your ascension, I firmly believe that today there is more hope to be put in the President of the United States of America than there has ever be before.
Having watched many debates, both American, Swedish, Hungarian an others, I've come to realize that in some places, the intellectual level of debate is ridiculously low. So low that debates most often deteriorate inte an orgy of slandering and defamation directed at the person himself/herself rathen than at this persons policies. Such, I fell, is the case with the US.
However, I think that with you as the new American president, there can finally be hope for a serious improvement of the global situation of today, an improvement guided by none other than YOU, Mr. Obama. Never can I remember an American politician that, in debates, has argued with reason rather than personal achievments. With solutions rather than war stories. With facts rather than blantant assumptions. For the first time have I gotten the feeling that America has a leader which takes the rest of the world (and its opinions) seriously. I commend you, Mr. Obama, for sporting a level of intellectuality that I feel is seldom found in American politics.
I sincerely hope that your rule will really bring the change that you promised it will bring. Not just to the USA and its people, but to all the world. I hope that the US's environmental policy will change for the better. I hope the the dualistic worldview of the former administration will be substituted by a nuanced picture of our world. I hope the the USA will take an active stance on wars and conflicts around the globe and try to solve them in a diplomatic and peaceful, yet firm manner.
Next, I would like to tell you about a more personal issue: the war in Iraq. As a descendant of an Iraqi (on my father's side) I feel a special connection to the country, even though I've never been there even once. I do in no way feel any anger towards the actions of your country, Mr. Obama, when its government chose to invade Iraq. False ground or not, it succeeded in removing Saddam Hussein, a dictator who'd shed so much blood the he could've coloured the whole Persian Gulf in red if he'd wanted to. Both I and my father were relieved when the news came, that his violent regime had once and for all come to an end.
That hope didn't last long however. For it took merely weeks, if not even days before the country was plunged into plunder, sectarian violence and bitter internal strife that still lasts to this day. Some even call it a civil war. Poor planning I would say would be the cause, based on the horrible naivité of the former administration. Yet again can I let our a sigh of relief, as I'm sure that no such error will be committed again, at least not under your rule.
The war in Iraq has affected us all, I believe. Mostly the Iraqis, of course, having to bear the brunt of the casualties and damages as their own lands were beset by foreigner. But close thereafter come the Americans, who have lost their relatives to the disgusting tactics of fanatics who show no regard, not even the slightest respect, for the sanctity of human life. With countless Americans having lost their fathers, husbands, sons, wives, mothers and daughters this way, I would be lying if I say that I do not understand, if not even sympathise with, the Democrats' goal to pull the troops out of Iraq.
I do feel the need to ask however, how soon do you plan to do that? And how swiftly? Iraq, as I see it, is still a very unstable country that still needs the help of foreign powers to be able to stand on its own feet. It is a well known fact that the reputation and of a former administration and its deeds, whether right or wrong, are automatically passed down to the next one, which then has the task of making up for the wrongdoings of the past. If you pull out of Iraq now, not only will you by the world be scorned not having cleaned up the mess that your country, Mr. Obama, has created in that region, but your enemies will also regard you as week and step up their attacks, be they verbal or physical, against your country and your people. You would also create a new Somalia in a region that has enough problems as it is already. It would be as many say "a breeding ground for terrorists", plagued by piracy, recurring coups, organized crime, clan warfare, terrorism and vigilante movements who would have no second thoughts about taking the life of an entire family for some senseless reason such as "insulting ones honour", which, in Iraq, can be done easily by merely farting. Pulling out too quickly would lead to an increased danger for the region, for the world and for the USA.
I advise you, Mr. Obama, that if you want to pull the American troops out of Iraq, you should do so with considerable care. Built up the country and its military: finish what you started, then you may leave. Otherwise you risk turning Iraq into what I just described above.
I really hope that whatever you may choose to do will succeed, as I believe in your intelligence, your capacity to think and to reason. I really do believe that your reign will facilitate for a better and more secure future: a future where security is ensured through cooperation and mutual understanding between the peoples of this world, rather than by arrogance and threats.
I really do hope, Mr. Obama, that you will bring change to this world.
Med Vänliga Hälsningar,
William R. Perung."
Congratulations on your victory in the presidential elections. I hope that your message of change will really be more than the empty words and promise we usually recieve from politicians.
I may not have followed the elections and the various agendas propagated during it, but I've heard a great lot about you, Mr. Obama. Here in Sweden you're lauded for your liberal and humanist views and you are almost described as a saviour of a world in crisis. While there are lots of exaggerations and high hopes about you and your coming term right now, I know that you cannot possibly solve all of the world's problems. Still, with your ascension, I firmly believe that today there is more hope to be put in the President of the United States of America than there has ever be before.
Having watched many debates, both American, Swedish, Hungarian an others, I've come to realize that in some places, the intellectual level of debate is ridiculously low. So low that debates most often deteriorate inte an orgy of slandering and defamation directed at the person himself/herself rathen than at this persons policies. Such, I fell, is the case with the US.
However, I think that with you as the new American president, there can finally be hope for a serious improvement of the global situation of today, an improvement guided by none other than YOU, Mr. Obama. Never can I remember an American politician that, in debates, has argued with reason rather than personal achievments. With solutions rather than war stories. With facts rather than blantant assumptions. For the first time have I gotten the feeling that America has a leader which takes the rest of the world (and its opinions) seriously. I commend you, Mr. Obama, for sporting a level of intellectuality that I feel is seldom found in American politics.
I sincerely hope that your rule will really bring the change that you promised it will bring. Not just to the USA and its people, but to all the world. I hope that the US's environmental policy will change for the better. I hope the the dualistic worldview of the former administration will be substituted by a nuanced picture of our world. I hope the the USA will take an active stance on wars and conflicts around the globe and try to solve them in a diplomatic and peaceful, yet firm manner.
Next, I would like to tell you about a more personal issue: the war in Iraq. As a descendant of an Iraqi (on my father's side) I feel a special connection to the country, even though I've never been there even once. I do in no way feel any anger towards the actions of your country, Mr. Obama, when its government chose to invade Iraq. False ground or not, it succeeded in removing Saddam Hussein, a dictator who'd shed so much blood the he could've coloured the whole Persian Gulf in red if he'd wanted to. Both I and my father were relieved when the news came, that his violent regime had once and for all come to an end.
That hope didn't last long however. For it took merely weeks, if not even days before the country was plunged into plunder, sectarian violence and bitter internal strife that still lasts to this day. Some even call it a civil war. Poor planning I would say would be the cause, based on the horrible naivité of the former administration. Yet again can I let our a sigh of relief, as I'm sure that no such error will be committed again, at least not under your rule.
The war in Iraq has affected us all, I believe. Mostly the Iraqis, of course, having to bear the brunt of the casualties and damages as their own lands were beset by foreigner. But close thereafter come the Americans, who have lost their relatives to the disgusting tactics of fanatics who show no regard, not even the slightest respect, for the sanctity of human life. With countless Americans having lost their fathers, husbands, sons, wives, mothers and daughters this way, I would be lying if I say that I do not understand, if not even sympathise with, the Democrats' goal to pull the troops out of Iraq.
I do feel the need to ask however, how soon do you plan to do that? And how swiftly? Iraq, as I see it, is still a very unstable country that still needs the help of foreign powers to be able to stand on its own feet. It is a well known fact that the reputation and of a former administration and its deeds, whether right or wrong, are automatically passed down to the next one, which then has the task of making up for the wrongdoings of the past. If you pull out of Iraq now, not only will you by the world be scorned not having cleaned up the mess that your country, Mr. Obama, has created in that region, but your enemies will also regard you as week and step up their attacks, be they verbal or physical, against your country and your people. You would also create a new Somalia in a region that has enough problems as it is already. It would be as many say "a breeding ground for terrorists", plagued by piracy, recurring coups, organized crime, clan warfare, terrorism and vigilante movements who would have no second thoughts about taking the life of an entire family for some senseless reason such as "insulting ones honour", which, in Iraq, can be done easily by merely farting. Pulling out too quickly would lead to an increased danger for the region, for the world and for the USA.
I advise you, Mr. Obama, that if you want to pull the American troops out of Iraq, you should do so with considerable care. Built up the country and its military: finish what you started, then you may leave. Otherwise you risk turning Iraq into what I just described above.
I really hope that whatever you may choose to do will succeed, as I believe in your intelligence, your capacity to think and to reason. I really do believe that your reign will facilitate for a better and more secure future: a future where security is ensured through cooperation and mutual understanding between the peoples of this world, rather than by arrogance and threats.
I really do hope, Mr. Obama, that you will bring change to this world.
Med Vänliga Hälsningar,
William R. Perung."
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