Dear Mr. President

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Dear Mr. President:

All things considered, I think we handled this Syrian opportunity quite well. When I say "we" I mean all of us. You were not alone in this. Decisions seem to be made by Presidents, Prime Ministers, government figureheads, whomever they may be, but they are most frequently group affairs, the results of the will or the absence of the will of the people.

Billions of billions of dollars are spent by certain sectors of our population to obfuscate, confuse, warp and twist reality, to hide the actual causes of events, and manipulate the will of the people into believing and supporting the lies and distortions behind destructive and retrogressive actions of all sorts, from bombing something to make a point, to polluting the environment for profit. Frequently, they are successful as they were in the initiating of the Iraq fiasco.

   

You, on the other hand, with considerably less money to spend, have been rallying the will of the American electorate for years now to hope, to believe, and to will change that matters, that people matter, that everyone deserves an opportunity to be respected as a person, to be able lead a life with dignity and value.

Guess what! You have succeeded to a degree that is astonishing. The change in the direction of this action, was "change that mattered"

The people were behind you on this. It was our will, evoked by your clarion call for support, that these "strikes" not happen. I think that it is obvious now that  you do have the will of the people who care about the integrity of the U.S. Constitution that recognizes that all are created equal and all deserve to be treated equally, that is with compassion, and loving understanding, for without these there will be no Justice.

This is a point, by the way, that seems to escape the minds of a number of your relatively close advisers.

However, we, many of us, understand the razor edge Path. We realize what it takes to walk that Path. We have great appreciation for the model your represent, and you have our unwavering support.

One tiny suggestion. When next you sign off at the end of a talk or speech, you might consider saying something like this : "God bless you and all of the people of the world. God Bless the United States of America, and God Bless this beautiful Planet our mutual home, Earth."

lots of love

-tom