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My
thanks to my fellow citizen for pointing out an omission
in my dispatch, "Do You Regret Being American?"
I need to tell you how I answered my questioner.
First
let me answer my Blanket reader's question
as to how I suggest dealing with a man in charge of
a country with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
An important initial step is to find the weapons,
and then to stop funding their production. Currently,
a nuclear weapons inspector is serving an eighteen-year
sentence in prison in Israel for exposing nuclear
weapons productivity in the first nuclear-capable
country in the region of Arab/Islamic countries, i.e.,
in Israel.
Dr
Mordechai Vanunu will be appreciated and celebrated
on 30th September, and he has been nominated yet again
for the Nobel Peace Prize. He worked on step one,
finding the weapons. By contrast, such weapons are
absent in Iraq.
Israel
has also used experimental and damaging chemical weapons
in Gaza in the form of an unidentified gas, which
has been conveniently ignored by press and public
alike. See: http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Brooks_NesZiona.htm
Step
two, stop funding the production and use of these
weapons. Without overly generous US tax-dollar supported
funding, Israel would not be able to develop these
lethal weapons, just as Saddam could not until the
United States supported his weapons program.
I
stick with George Washington who warned US, the United
States, not to get embroiled in foreign military ventures.
He didn't need a PhD to articulate a practical argument
that stands up to logic and economic practice. Professor
Paul Krugman says that current policy and expenditures
will quickly lead the US to a third world economic
level. But third-worlders are often more economically
astute than their comfortable counterparts State-side.
The Financial Times calls current policy "reckless."
It
is more than reckless. It is unconstitutional to spend
money and lives on undeclared wars. It is unconstitutional
to detain people without charge and to deprive them
of an open trial.
My
answer to the Egyptian whose question warrants our
attention, "Do you regret being American?"
was:
My
only regret is how the United States of America's
constitution is being stepped on and disregarded by
those claiming to represent US citizens. This constitution
is what defines my identity as an American, and defends
the individual American's right to speak and to participate
in his government.
I
regret the loss of even one comma of this Constitution.
Thomas
Jefferson warned us that we could be free or ignorant,
not both.
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