FOURTH OPEN LETTER
TO SENATOR KERRY
R.K.Kent, Historian
Dear Senator Kerry,
A few minutes ago I heard you ask us, the American People, to trust you.
This trust is to encompass both domestic and foreign policies.
On the domestic side I have few bones to grind. The middle class is squeezed
in favor of the waelthy.Out-sourcing is severely taxing the lives of our
workers and their families.Health protections are extremely uneven and hence
un-American in texture.Education and “re-tooling” is the key to American
prosperity in the Twenty-first Century. You made no substantive reference to
our civil libarties and rights, however. Our FBI, once a protector of our
civil liberties, became a political police during the Clinton
Administration. It is increasingly expanding in this direction for an
ostensibly higher goal, namely to prevent terrorist attacks against us at
home. This can be “fixed,” as you like to say, by such measures as a
directive not to go around checking what kind of books we take out of
libraries, a disgusting prelude to worse. The problem you will encounter and
cave under is in the area of foreign policy.
No matter what you SAY you are surrounded by the same foreign-policy
truth-benders and manipulators that prevailed in the Administration of Bill
Clinton. I know them minutely and well through their words and deeds in the
Balkans. It is precisely our entry into the Balkans, as a result of their
would-be “Moral Imperatives” to get involved and their glaring arrogance,
that we began to be disliked and, increasingly, hated around the globe. All
of them have spread around the same message” “our Might makes us invariably
Right.” Remember Nazi Germany? Yet, they are wrapping themselves around you
like a boa constrictor and you seem to WELCOME them.
The more prominent among the ilk, hell-bent on demanding unquestioned
obedience to our power abroad, are Richard H., Madeleine A., Wesley C.,
Madeleine’s Rubin but there are a number of others less well known to our
public at large that belong to the same opinionated, arrogant lot that we
simply MUST eliminate from foreign policy altogether if we ever can hope to
torpedo terrorism coming from abroad. The time has past when the old
“pommade” of morality and “human” rights used to befuddle through bafflegab,
engineered mayhem , would-be “mass graves” and the viscious, venomous media
destructions of individuals and groups deemed basically “disobedient”
vis-a-vis the center of Universe, Washington, D.C.
In short, if you really hope to be able to change our current image abroad,
you MUST not give foreign-policy positions to any one with the previous
“Balkan” record, to mention only the area I am familiar with.
We must not yield to calls for being “:smart.” We can only be stupid by
thinking that we are smart enough to outsmart everyone abroad (and at home).
This is the main reason why we have lost credibility abroad and why so many
of our own people question increasingly the foreign policies which make us
the target of hate and vengeance. If we are to get more of the same I hope
that you will not win. It is better to have a President who apears to be
“underdevloped” abroad than to have a President who is so “smart” as to
secretly assume that the universal truth, stated by Abraham Lincoln about
fooling people, is bunk.
Respectfully.
Raymond K. Kent
(Emeritus)
History Department,
University of California,
Berkeley, CA. 94720
(510/642-1971)
14.10.2004
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