Reflections after looking at visits
from an international audience, I can see that the Internet belongs
to the People – not governments. This is true no matter what nation
you live in. Once upon a time, the United States was a role model –
not for democracy, but for the constitutional republic, freedom and
liberty, and the rule of law For the People and By the
People. Because of our bankrupt foreign policy, perpetuated by
politicians who approach problems with the same failed
domestic/foreign policies; we are no longer looked upon as such.
This does not mean that I have given up
on my country, or not loyal to my fellow Americans, or intend to use
the apologetic approach of Obama and Kerry; but looking at problems
objectively with an agenda toward true reformation. That can only happen
by We the People and that being true for all people from any
nation.
It pleases me that France is the
leading foreign nation that has the most visits. Americans have not
been looked upon with friendliness since the days of the snobbish deGaulle socialism or the Napoleonic period, but that does not prevent
my objective look at France and the French. France has been, over the
centuries, the icon of culture that spread across western
civilization. The French aided us when no other nation would during our revolution to become a sovereign nation.
The Webster American-English dictionary has many French
derivative words for good reason. When the first Webster dictionary
was published, French was considered the language of diplomacy.
Today, it is hard to find French classes in the school curriculum
because the government that controls our education is forcing Spanish
as the second language – something not required nor wanted by many
Americans. English is the official language. The Founders never
thought it was needed to put that in writing; despite the warning of
Benjamin Franklin (first US diplomat to France) that it was
doubtful the constitutional republic would last as generations
passed.
It also saddens me that France is
becoming overrun by people who immigrated there, not to assimilate,
but to subjugate. The same applies to the United Kingdom,
particularly England. Such a history it has, good and bad, now
allowing Sharia law to infiltrate its system. Our economic system (as
well as language) comes from England. It has evolved, but the
American economic system was established by Alexander Hamilton,
our first Secretary of Treasury, who used the British system as a
model.
It is good to see Turkey on the list.
The Turks has had a tumultuous history, but should be proud of their
change to a republic, thanks to their George Washington: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
He was so impressive that an English lord [Kinross],
who was a British officer against Turk forces fighting to against the
Ottoman Empire and European nations seeking to carve Turkey up, wrote
the first/best biography
available of in English. Lord Kinross also wrote about Ottoman Centuries. Like our George Washington, first general
and first president of the United States, Atatürk was
a competent commander, shrewd politician, a realistic statesman, and
a man of visionary enlightenment. It would sadden him if her were
alive to see the state of politics in the Republic of Turkey
today – leaning toward Islamic Jihadism. But that is the
leadership, which does not always represent the people of any nation.
When others were persecuting and expelling Jews [i.e fascist Spain in
1930s], Turkey was accepting them as immigrants. The Turks remained
neutral in WW2, but joined NATO and participated in the Korean War
with US troops, gallantly.
In the vein of the Big Picture concept,
looking at things from outside of the box, dreamers believed that the
United Nations would be the door to an alliance of nations modeled
after the unified states of the United States with a central global
government. The problem is that without a universal language
established and that centralized global government does not recognize
the sovereignty of each individual nation, it would/will end up as
the European Union. Others have envisioned this concept only for
economic and/or political centralized power. And, as Benjamin
Franklin had warned, the People would become apathetic and
constitutional law would be weakened by selfish politicians and an
selfish, apathetic population of citizens.
In this 21st century, one
would think that we could go beyond all of that, united to search
among the stars for knowledge and expansion. It is what caused the
discovery of the 'New World' in the late 15th century, but
this could happen with an alliance of nations.
The 21st century has turned
out to be a battle with theocracy, a system that is governed by 7th
century thinking and using tools of terror and fear to establish its
rule and global agenda. In the meantime, Christianity is once again
being persecuted, a religion that has come a long way since its
medieval theocracy.
People of the nations should be
concentrating on exploring the universe, not war and genocide. The
first World War was to end all wars, then there was World War II,
which ushered in the Cold War and the concept that if conflicts were
fought at a smaller scale, World War III could be prevented.
Unfortunately, rogue national leader have muddled those dreams
and the United Nations has become the
outcome of a poor social experiment.
Freedom and liberty are just words
unless they are implemented and protected By the People who ensure
that who they vote for respect the rules of law that promote liberty
and justice.
It would be delusional to believe in
Utopia, but it should not prevent us from ensuring that a better
world, an alliance of nations on planet Earth, who dream and realize
the venture into the unknown universe and the advent of knowledge is
the best course of the human species.
You also, Linda
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