Bill Sykes' Newsletter from America.
(October 2001)
Politics make strange bed fellows.
I have desperately tried to refrain from discussing politics
and religion but to no avail.
 When
one is surrounded by and continuously bombarded with, political
and religious rhetoric how can one's points of view not
be distorted by the incredible inaccuracies of the propaganda
machines churning out their never ending views based upon
the never ending line of retired military experts and politicians
delivering their "EXPERT" advice and opinions
on any and all subjects and situations.
I have found in my thirty plus years of residence in the
United States that in a matter of only two hundred years
the United States has successfully integrated immigrants
from many nations into an economic and military force to
be reckoned with.
Hard working people of all ethnic backgrounds, in general,
are pleasant and generous to a fault, but due to our reasonably
affluent society and mode of lifestyle, cosseted and protected
from the real world outside our borders, we tend to be oblivious
to world reactions to the perceived arrogance of the American
Government and it's people.
(We do of course have poverty in some of our Inner Cities,
but if one has traveled the world there are varying degrees
of poverty).
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