[mjshira]

if the President governed as the world wished he would, we never would have done many things which, had we not done, would have left the world, and indeed many of those countries which you view as having important opinions and I am not sure, but it seems that you might grant them a veto on our potential actions (global test), less well off than they are today. here are just a few things we might have not done:

1. ended WW2 with an unconditional surrender

2. confronted the communist world domination plot with resolve (evil empire comment by Reagan viewed as wrong by the left) and thus defining the conflict in terms that other nations could understand

3. carried out the Marshall Plan (rebuilt Japan, Europe)

4. supported England and Russia with the lend lease program

Having lived in Europe I was struck by how those that I knew there, successful in banking, felt the need to apologize or excuse themselves of that success. We in American are at a crossroads with just this issue. People, normally on the left, seem to have similar feelings of a need to excuse themselves for the blessings and the fruits of HARDWORK.

When those in the world community question our direction, we might consider what their vested interests are before jumping to excuse ourselves and placating those whose interests are often, if only secretly, diametrically opposed to our own.

So I ask those of you who care enough to post here, debate an important issue such as this election, are you embarrassed? Are you worried what the French, Germans, Swiss and others think of us?

Or are you, like me, resolved in a faith that our nation, while divided over some issues, must stand in defiance of the worlds latest tyrannical force, terrorism.