Dear Mr. Green Genes:
I assure you that there are folks in the middle east wishing you harm. I live here in downtown New York, and we saw that this is the case. The particular folks who did us this damage had NO conection to Iraq, but rather were almost all Saudis and funded by Saudis apparantly. Even if we were to go after Saudi Arabia, the most we can hope for is to be as safe as they are in Jafa Isreal, if we continue in this way to create more enamies. I will remind you that for 800 years England sought to subdue the Irish and to no avail, Peace comes with diplomacy and cooperation.
Much of the anti American sentiment is caused by the same thing which cause many nations to hate England (a funny love hate relationship) before WWII. When a nation removes more of the worlds resourses than its share, without concern for poverty in those nations, folks get angrey and do bad things. If we help to organise an Asian and third world common market, we would truely be safer than if we continue to kill men women and children in market places.
I share this with you, not only as a Quaker, but as a political scientist who graduated from a top ten law school. We have to return to the tradition of electing the smarter guy. The school yard bully is seldom the intelect in the school, and we have to stop electing them in order to be really safe.
On a final note, you are much safer out there in Texas than we are here at the focal point of the worlds distrust, so I urge you to chose peace.
Yours in the light
Larry