To My American Leaders
With US Peace Corps and privately for some five years, I lived and worked in the Middle-East and South-Asia. I well understand the mess that has been created in the Middle-East. And I also understand well the hospitality inherent to the innocent victims of the current hostilities ---- not of their making.
Dismissed as "collateral-damage" they suffer the destruction of their society, neighborhoods and families while others reap the profits of disruption and war. Is there no justice in "humanity"; or is it all no more than fodder for the daily news and annual management reports?
Terrorists act to divide us in our homes, stoking fear and amplifying hate. They aim to break our bonds of humanity. Yet for some, they are as freedom-fighters. Meanwhile we at home cannot give in to fear, faction-serving demagoguery or cloaking ourselves in political fantasy. Our governments should consider how this all best fits into our own long-term strategic goals.
As representatives to our governments, please don’t abandon thousands of refugees to our nasty domestic political opportunists. This is NOT the traditional American Way. We must think ahead strategically. Our aging US population, needs their relatively youthful vigor refreshing our society and economy.
Any risks to "our way of life" from suffering and shell-shocked innocents is minimal, justifiable and readily managed. Think positively and long term. This rejuvenation can well serve our own long-term strategic goals. And besides, was it not "we" who kicked over the hornet's nest in search of -- -- What was it that we have been searching for in the middle-east -- since the early and mid-1900s? We and our European partners?
Please vote no on any legislation that would halt or interrupt the acceptance of refugees into the U.S. Remember our long and honorable immigrant heritage. Were our ancestors any threat to the original inhabitants here? Tradition says not.
Managed properly resettling these distraught victims can well serve American long term corporate goals, complementing profit from the war-industries and plundering the war-ravaged middle-eastern petroleum reserves. Resettling refugees can serve our own strategic goals.
Remember, What's Good for The American Economy is Good for America.