On 9/11, I Nominate Frank Staheli For President
I have purposefully tried to stay away from commenting on foreign policy for quite a while on this site. I just find the subject too depressing to dwell on. On this day every year the topic of U.S. foreign policy is more significant to me than normal so I figured today I’d link to the most insightful blog post I could find relating to our nation’s present troubles then link to it and feel like I’ve fulfilled my quota on this topic for the next year or so.
He doesn’t know it but Frank Staheli, a veteran of the Iraq war and a Utah blogger, is one of my heroes. He is completely wrong on the latest Republican scheme to provide a new welfare entitlement for people who don’t need it in the form of tuition vouchers but that can be forgiven. Frank is absolutely correct in everything he says when he blogs on the topic of American foreign policy. If anyone ever needs to know what’s right for our nation in the post 9/11 years I’m happy to refer them to Frank. Here’s his post today…it doesn’t directly relate to America’s post 9/11 policies but it covers what I think are the most important points. I’m grateful that he is out there making the case for a more humble and thoughtful American foreign policy. It would sure be great if Utah’s politicians who hold national office would listen to him.
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Thank you.
It’s not too often that people can disagree strongly on certain issues but be willing to compliment our ‘opponents’ when we agree with them. That’s what I appreciate most about your post.
The words in the article that you link to are words that I’ve been meaning to say for a long time. I get so angered when Newt and others use the auspices of places like the American Enterprise Institute to convey the idea that the Enterprise of America is to choose other countries’ leaders, bomb their civilians into oblivion, and force them to be just like us. This is wrong, and America should be embarrassed for it.
It’s interesting that the Mountain Meadows Massacre and 9/11 happened on the same calendar day. Mormons and Americans can both learn the same lesson from both of these events: (for the most part) we get respect when we give respect. If we don’t–if we think that people of other religions or cultures or nationalities are somehow inferior to us–then we have lost the right to the respect of those other peoples.
Comment by Frank Staheli — September 12, 2007 @ 10:24 am