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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (235598)	3/9/2002 2:08:23 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Out of that incendiary, lyrical, load of crap emerges a few words of wisdom: "Making broad, all-inclusive statements and insinuations ... completely marginalizes and discredits your organization" "America could enter a new cycle of violence in its troubled relations with the world. Revenge will follow revenge, until one of the sides will be obliterated by nuclear blast." "She should change her advisers, and build her relations with the world afresh... rein in the domination-obsessed ... elites ... become again the universally loved, rather parochial America of Walt Whitman and Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Abe Lincoln. Now it is President Bush's choice between the Old Testament drive for revenge and the New Testament spirit of love" Great idea. Now, how to do that? Not by blaming "Wall Street". The business forces that power capitalism and improves the world won't be affected by suicide bombers. Problems there will be tended to by Americans. Not by blaming the Pentagon, as criminal as certain military enterprises have been. Secret cabals and backroom deals Not by blaming all the real and imagined adversaries in the Middle East. The reason America is still successful is a lingering characteristic, even in the noise of political battles: personal responsibility. America should defend itself. Beyond that, we need to pull out of covert and overt involvement with sick regimes around the world and let them solve their own problems, and discover personal responsibility on their own. That is something we cannot give them. Your essay is an example of how far the lack of personal responsibility can go. We have no business being militarily involved with peoples in the world with this attitude. Our military involvement only makes their causes more insane and corrupts American ideals.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (235598)	3/9/2002 2:36:40 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The power of America has always been her Christian spirit of love, justice and forgiveness. Evil doers have to be punished, but no pleasure should come from the terror that has to be used to punish these evil doers. Justice and mercy should be balanced with a person touch. Demand the same justice from those that wrong you that you would want God to demand for your wrong doings. Most men prefer Mercy for themselves when they do wrong, but justice for others when they do wrong. Civil leaders have the difficult and awesome responsibility of punishing evil doers, but not to have enjoyment in doing it. In the heart, forgiveness and mercy must reign supreme. Christians people should never be motivated with the harsh vengeance of the Old Covenant but with the mercy and love of Christ in the New! "Now it is President Bush's choice between the Old Testament drive for revenge and the New Testament spirit of love." "