Bill Sykes' Newsletter from America.
(October 2001)
How do we assess blame?
(Thought for today).
I have read, listened, watched, and studied the pros and
cons promoted by various politicians and political parties
throughout the world with a desire of putting things into
perspective.
 I
find that we, whilst professing Human Rights and Civil Liberties,
have, in many instances, forced commercialism upon the third
world population---a fast food joint on every corner etc.,
and, at the same time, naïve foreign policy decisions,
(too many to mention individually), have undermined the
trust of foreign nations by our controversial actions which
have come back to haunt us.
The thought continues to worry me that if we had not interfered
in the internal politics of sovereign nations, but instead
provided economic and humanitarian aid such as food, shelter
and health care, (it certainly would have been less expensive
than the predicament we now find ourselves in), would we
still be the interfering hated nation that we have become?
Also would we still have suffered the terrible retribution
of the terrorist actions of the 11th of September, 2001?
Questions that I certainly can't answer.
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