Rick's Personal Blog
2002-02-22 - 2:11 p.m.
Did the United States do such irreparable damage by protecting their friends and interests for the purposes of promoting freedom around the world that Daniel Pearl deserved to have his throat slit on camera? For those of you out there who believe that the United States has bred this animosity through their foreign policy, I hope you can now see that there are far more evil people in the world than the United States. People in the United States are freer than any other people in the world. We are free to disagree with each other, and have our own opinions, and live for the most part the way we want to. We do have some sects of intolerance here, but that is because we are free to have our own opinions regardless of how wrong they may be. You have to take a little bad to get a lot of good sometimes. Up till September 11th we didn’t have to live in fear of someone who was intolerant of our beliefs coming into our houses in the middle of the night to make examples out of us. This is what happens in countries like China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and even Pakistan if you have a belief system different than that of the ruling power. If you wish to argue that the US has done this to other countries, (forcing them to live our way vs. their own) and that is why violence against our country and our countrymen is warranted, I would ask why is freedom from the above mentioned oppression such a bad thing? We are not oppressing people. We are not invading countries and enslaving their people. We give untold amounts of money to countless different countries in the interests of helping them economically. Sometimes it backfires on us. We are not perfect. We have made mistakes. But whenever a country has a natural or some other kind of disaster, we are usually the first to offer support. People who have never been oppressed by anyone other than their own countrymen killed Daniel Pearl. Not because of US foreign policy, and not by our support of Israel. This was not about religion, this was not about nationality; it was about hate. Pure and simple inbred hate taught to them by generations of religious oppression and ignorance. I’m sick and tired of some of you who are trying to pin the problems of the world on my country. You are SO wrong.
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