A friend recently told me she only heard of one person who voted for President Barack Obama. I was the only one who said, "Well, now you know two." As an investigative journalist, I am used to doing research on political controversy. Obviously she does not read both sides of issues and listens only to one political party's propaganda. Besides, it took more than two votes to win a presidency. Sometimes people limit themselves to their own opinions as they don't get out very often.
Dear Ones,
When President George W. Bush vowed vociferously he was going to "get Osama bin Laden," it was President Obama who found him without having to carpet bomb two nations to get him as the previous administration did, as the president was at the same time attempting to clean up the mess of invading, attacking and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan with thousands of deaths on both sides. How soon we forget.
Our president said he was not in favor of war and wants instead an international coalition to solve the problems in Syria and Iraq. The United States need not carry a billy club to reform misfits and extremist terrorists full of themselves and their religio-political missions in complex civil wars.
He, for good reason, does not want American boots on the ground. Even war lords know what would happen, although they chomp at the bit to get soldiers feet and bodies shot up. One veteran in Congress, tortured in battle, wants revenge to bring the same slaughter on other soldiers. You can find his picture at the top of Mark Twain's War Prayer.
It is the Pentagon and a turkey hawk Congress that are forcing more Tomahawk Missiles costing half a million a piece, and little results for all the tax payers money. Have any collateral damage statistics been announced by such devastation? It's the War Department that's dragging its feet when it comes to world peace. There's no defense in war that only gathers hatred and avenge.
Ever since the beginning of a paternalistic Earth, man has only tried the force of weaponry and explosions to attempt solving international problems. It's no longer a world in which Genghis Khan stood before 30,000 Selkirk Muslims and proudly announced the slaughter, all in "God's name."
It's extremely difficult when man has been conditioned and programmed for war and tries to reform the world that we know into international peace through negotiation and diplomacy. Only through a coalition of nations working as a team can man harness terrorism together instead of one country trying the impossible dream in solving centuries of incessant tribal civil wars with opposing members slaughtering each other.
We must not forget that President Obama is the first American African to win the chief position in any administration. That alone is a hurdle to get over in a race-related nation. But in addition to restoring the smoking ruins and environmental devastation of his predecessors he also has to daily fight insidious bigotry that caused the entire US Civil War. Now he and his beautiful family are the targets of this ongoing venom.
Already our president has done more for helping the US and the rest of the world than any other president as he tries to keep us out of war. In foreign affairs and diplomacy he has talked and negotiated with Israel's Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu more times than any other president. But at the same time he will not give in to that nation's persecution of Muslims, possibly Semitic descendants of Canaanites of Palestine.
Already the accomplishments of President Obama are stacking up as overpowering factions of control deny his success. Gasoline is at a four-year record low as the economy is gaining better results day by day–the envy of Europe. If that happened during any other presidency, the there would be joyful shouting and dancing in the streets throughout the land.
Let's give credit were credit is due.
Mame,
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