Robert and Cheryl,

I hope only that we are wise and generous enough to begin to ask ourselves the
really important questions about the events of Tuesday:

What can we do to protect ourselves?
Why do some people hate our institutions of wealth and military might enough to
conduct a suicide mission against them?
What can we do to address and diminish that hatred and the horrible acts that flow
from it?

I want to believe that the American people are wise enough to begin to explore
these questions, to begin to explore calmly and rationally some of the historical
forces that might account for the rise of this kind of warfare directed at the
US.  Time will tell.

Take care and stay out of harm's way.




Robert Einarsson wrote:

> Today I am wearing a black shirt and a tie with Statue of Liberty
> emblems on it.
>
> I am ashamed of the Canadian Prime Minister's comparatively tepid
> statements of solidarity with the United States.  I wish that he had
> committed us as firmly as the leaders of Britain and Germany did
> in their statements.
>
> I am also ashamed that our Prime Minister spent last winter
> scoffing and laughing off the calls from our Opposition party to take
> terror links in Canada more seriously.
>
> There is a letter to the editor in the National Post which reads in
> part "In my 32 years as a professor at Simon Fraser University, I
> repeatedly heard negative comments about the U.S. from my
> colleagues -- both Marxist and pseudoMarxist -- and their
> brainwashed students . . . The anti-American admirers of Marx,
> Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro on Canadian campuses are not only
> wrong.  They are an enemy within."
>
> I not only agree with this statement.  I will post it on my office door
> if need be in the coming weeks.
>
> As Cheryl Richey states in her post (copied below), the United
> States is the most generous, peace-loving, conscientious nation in
> the world and in the history of the world.  The media and academia
> faddists who carp against them have finally reached a point where
> it would be prudent to SHUT UP.
>
> From:                   Cheryl Richey <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:                Re: Our nation's tragedey
>
> > This is very nice to hear feelings of sympathy.  However, feelings are not
> > as helpful as actions.  I would like to see other countries come to help
> > us unbury our people. We are in a time of crisis.  We spend billions of
> > dollars to come to the need of other countries. We help clean up after
> > war; we help when earthquakes hit, we help discourage countries.  Now it
> > is our turn to need help.
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