Bill Sykes' Newsletter from America.
(February 2004)
An ex-Brit gives his views---(without
fear or favor)---of the American scene.
Preamble:
It must be pretty obvious to the discerning reader, that
as I publish each of these news letters at the beginning
of the month, a majority of the news items are from the
previous month. (In this case, news and comments are for
the month of January 2004).
The 2003/2004 New Year celebrations came and went without
any untoward terrorist incidents being perpetrated upon
American soil. As it is now past the middle of January
2004, I have to decide quickly where to begin, and of
more importance what subjects shall I tackle. I must make
the information in this news letter more realistic and
practical than the subject matter that I chose for the
Christmas Edition. A good friend of mine, an ex-Brit of
over fifty years acquaintance and a severe critic of my
news letters, said that he considered the Christmas edition
to be one of my better efforts---"well written but
totally unrealistic". Praise indeed coming from my
most vociferous critic. Well, it certainly is much better
than his usual critique.
If you take a look at the Christmas 2003 Edition of,
"View from America", you will find that I totally
agree with his assessment, that there is no way the scenario
that I put forward, of an "International Confederation
of Nations", (ICON), would be accepted, and implemented
in a world full of hatred, violence, and political power
struggles.
Perhaps a good place to start would be to recap some of
the major items of news, and add my comments on events
that happened during the year of 2003.
We welcome feedback about any of the contents
of these newsletters. Please send all correspondence to
bill_sykes@huddersfield1.co.uk
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