Someone said just last week that when you hear anti-American or leftist rhetoric, just laugh.
That’s exactly what I did when Silaja Cheruvu’s opinion popped up on my computer screen, I grinned and laughed.
There has been a new wave of patriotism after the 9/11 attacks. But Cheruvu’s opinion represents the extreme left elitist point of view attacking the United States as the “great satan.”
She points to this “capitalism evil” that she enjoys everyday. The article she submitted to the East Tennessean would only be printed in a democratic society.
This anti-American philosophy is extremely inconsistent. Even being a student at an American university totally delineates her argument.
That’s right, all of you Americans who love capitalism are sinners. Those who want justice for those killed on 9/11 are just “crazy fundamentalists.”
Her so-called heartfelt declaration to her “American brothers and sisters” is not to Americans at all. It’s to that 1/10th of 1 percent of Americans protesting all foundations that they enjoy everyday.
On Thursday, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel who survived the Holocaust came out in support of the United States on war. Wiesel is not a warmonger but he says that Saddam can’t continue to hold power in the Middle East. Wiesel is now proud to live in the United States. Wiesel represents the success achieved by those who have immigrated to America for the freedom we offer.
The issue does not lie with the United States blaming others for its problems, it’s about protecting U.S. citizens. It’s about protecting innocent Iraqis, not this conspiracy theorist view of American foreign policy.
I’m tired of hearing that some Iraqis might lose their lives in a war.
What do you think Hussein is doing to his citizens anyway?
He gasses his citizens and experiments with biological weapons on them.
I interviewed an Iraqi doctor in January who showed pictures of dead Kurds gassed by Hussein.
I do something that may be strange to some. I read national and international newspapers everyday. Papers that point to the atrocities of Hussein and other evil dictators.
I even read books like Kenneth Pollack’s pinpointing crimes committed by Hussein on his people everyday.
Sources tell me that there may be property opening up in Baghdad soon and Kim Jong-Il is still accepting American imports in North Korea.
Pakistan, the country that we “bullied” into freedom, might suit those with ideas like Cheruvu because they actually have freedom, thanks to American intervention. They enjoy freedoms like women’s rights and the pursuit of wealth.
But I guess President Karzai is another Prozac-driven capitalist.
America may be losing its integrity. But only because of the armchair critics who lie about our democracy.

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