Hello, Frank, Once again, an excellent post. Indeed, it is hard to sell liberty abroad when you aren't buying it at home. Iraq and Afghanistan may well indeed be our Waterloo. Gordon
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Reichert Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I want to find a way out of this crazy mix of thigs! Good evening again, Gordon! Gordon Wilmoth wrote to Frank Reichert... > Hello, Frank, > Yes, I often think the music theme from the twilight zone is playing in the > background. Sometimes I think I must be the crazy one. It seems like a > merry go round in perpetual motion and I just can't get off, let alone > figure out a way to stop it. I'm glad there is one 'club member' who even wants to find a way to 'stop it', as I do! Gordon, you're not crazy at all. You are probably one of the only sane ones still left around in all of this mix of things. The terrile part of what we will be facing in the next several years, unfortuntely, is that our country is no longer governed by reasoned minds, and more so, we are governed by, seemingly, aggressionalists. That is, we want to impose our ideals through the use of force, including what we are now doing misguidedly, in the Middle East! I hope you are still awake, and listening to my simple words here. You don't 'impose liberty' by force. It is persuasion rather than force, that finally in the aftermath of all of this, that liberty will survive, or fail. The very definition of Liberty is that it isn't imposed by anyone, it is only a given quality that the human race is given, if it only wants wants to support and even defend such a reality. What we find today, in US foreign policy, is a use of tremendous force to impose liberty, whatever that may have intended, I don't honestly know, but in in any case, it is imposed by brute and lethal force, in which real "liberty" cannot be transmitted or conferred upon anyone without the recipient's desire to affirm it! Liberty comes from the personal choice to be FREE. It cannot be imposed upon anyone else. I don't see any of that happening today anywhere where US troops are in place to insure than happens for anyone else! Maybe we should simply learn to live by example. That is, provide liberty here at home, which we are quickly losing, and show everyone else that this is how it ought to work! Kindest regards, Frank _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
