Don't
encourage hate of U.S. abroad
I recently returned from a tour of
They blamed America first. America was always wrong. The
Indian people heard this daily from these liberal American mouths. I pointed
this out to them and the liberals all came down on me, saying I was ruining the
trip by causing disharmony.
I'm sure this confused the Indians because they would do
anything to get to America. There was a time we heard of the ugly American
tourist. Today we have the dangerous American tourist. We now not only have
CNN, ex-presidents, ex-vice presidents, movie stars, and wannabe presidents
spreading hatred for America around the globe, we have liberal tourists doing
it, too.
America is a family - our personal squabbles should remain
here. By taking their hatred beyond our borders, they are reinforcing the lies
spread by America's enemies.
There are many American haters all over this planet. Many
tourists think that by talking badly about America to a native of a foreign
country, they will be accepted by the natives.
We have politicians going abroad saying terrible things about
America to get applause and acceptance. These politicians are so stupid they
think America won't hear about it back home. Every day you hear the liberals
express how America is hated around the world. (I wonder why.)
PETER J. McKEOWN
Marysville
Lefties Hate Bush,
Not
Peter
McKeown’s letter to the editor on the 9th of January (Don't encourage hate of U.S. abroad) demonstrates
that he does not understand what he is hearing.
In his letter he gives two examples of Liberal hate speech, both were
not about hating America, they were all about finding fault with our current
President. Most lefties, such as myself,
do not like the President for some pretty good reasons – he is stealing our
freedom from us, he is the direct cause of thousands of innocent people being
killed and he has tarnished America’s image at home and overseas. Lefties do not hate America, we want to save
it. We want to restore America to what
it was before Mr. Bush twisted it into a semi-police state of fear. What many of us do hate is what the Neo-Cons
are doing to destroy our country, our middle class, our families and our
freedom.
To put this into perspective, when the Right wing endlessly went after President Clinton for sex scandals, did they hate America or did they hate the President? I think they hated the man, not the country. How then is this situation different? As I understand their thinking, the right thought that Mr. Clinton was skewing the moral compass of the country. What the left is complaining about is that we see Mr. Bush eroding our freedom, and we are speaking out in an attempt to save the country. Clearly one can love America and not approve of the President, and I for one will speak out against our incompetent President where ever I am.
The truth is I do not hate Mr. Bush. I am however disgusted with his actions and feel that as an American I can not blindly stand by and not speak out.
Steve McGourty
12 January 2007