Hey buddy:, how are you? I can't wait to one day visit Iran, even more so now.
I appreciate the E-Mail, it was a good read and I agree with you 100% I love my country but what you say is true. I would just like to say, for the record, that there are many like you in America. There are a lot of people who see the flaws and lies in eth government, we're not all brainwashed. We can see though a lot of things, I'm not saying you didn't know this, I'm just saying it. It's almost funny in a way how the Administration is now trying to act like the whole reason we went into Iraq was for freedom. I and many others here in the States saw through this. However it is sad how some News Pundits, most Republicans, and some others buy this. It is not a valid reason in my book. Is freedom for others worth American lives? I don't mean to sound cruel but it is not. It's not a valid reason to war with another nation, plenty of nations isn't free, and is it America's job to police the world? I say no. The only reason America is even remotely interested in the Middle East is for Oil. I'm not saying that's necessarily a "bad" thing, but I'll get into that in a bit. If the Middle East did not have Oil, we couldn't care less about what some crazy Wahhabi Muslims in the middle of the Arabian Desert do. Like you said, economic reasons are the main concern. Now I'd like to say, this is not unique to America, we are just lying about it, in a way. As you know the British, French, Spanish, and other European nations who now criticize America are guilty of the same things in the past. The British for example controlled about ¼ of the Earth's land mass. So what I'm trying to say, no country is a nation of "Angels". Now I personally, and this is NOT the view of many Americans, is that America should protect its economic and political interests abroad. In order to maintain out lifestyle we need to get some blood on our hands from time to time, as sad as that may sound. You said it perfectly! How we didn't get where we are today without doing so. Plus the U.S. only gets 3% of our Oil from Iraq at the moment. Plus, even if we started the war for oil it doesn't matter, we have liberated a people and given them a chance to fight for their right to exist as a sovereign nation that is ruled by self determination and democracy not through fear and tyranny. You, being Iranian should know 1st had that Iraq wasn't a "barrel of laughs" before we got there.. Speaking of that I was meaning to ask, do you remember the Shah of Iran? The Revolution? The Iran-Iraq war? I would love to hear about these things from a man who actually experienced it.
You bring up many good points; I just want people to understand the America isn't such a bad place. That's all. We have done a lot of good and evil of course. Thomas
Frank
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