  ( urlLink a recent story by Phil Lucas , editor of the prestigous "News Herald" in Panama City, Florida) Dear Phil Lucas, I'm sorry but you've made absolutely no good points.
In fact, your small-minded jingoistic attitude is rather indicative of a major and growing problem with the under-educated masses of our country these days. You published pictures of burned American CONTRACTORS (ie. Halliburton-employed Mercenaries in Iraq for Cash, thereby accepting the dangers of their charge) presumably in an attempt to remind all your readers that--despite whatever the torture prison photos that have dominated the media might suggest--the Evil Muslims are so much worse than us. First of all--you're COMPARING our soldiers (prison photos) to the Evil Terrorists (burned corpses).
That's great. He then you go into an unapologetically racist rant about how Muslims are apparently the root of all the world's evil, murder, death and suffering. How--for Centuries--the Muslims have been single-handedly inflicting their fanatic violence upon the innocent Christian world. Well, sorry but that is just complete bullshit. Fanaticism can be found in the bowels of almost every major world religion.
In fact, if you wanted to make a more legitimate point, you could maybe pontificate the tragic fact that--historically--more people have died in the name of God (or Jesus or Allah or Zeus or Whoever) than any other cause. Since we stepped out of the primordal sludge, we've been killing each other over the differences in our spiritual mythologies. I think it's silly and sad, too--but I'm neither arrogant nor moronic enough to fault one people for this unfortunate reality. "Madeline Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess..." It's easy to point fingers, to blame one person or one president or one race.
However, the problem with our country is we're so arrogant and certain of our own righteousness that we've never seriously taken a moment to evaluate why these people might WANT to kill us. Good and evil? Come on, go back to grade school. THEY THINK THEY'RE AS RIGHT AS WE THINK WE ARE. In their opinion, we've invaded and desecrated their holy lands, for which they want to kill us. A little barbaric and harsh? Certainly. But simply dismissing their religous beliefs as "crazy", "whacko" or inferior to our own is both pig-headed and counterproductive.
Also--the American Contractors burned in Iraq had nothing to do with theological differences. WE INVADED THEIR COUNTRY WITH NO GOOD REASON OR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT. Does anyone ever stop to think how we'd feel if Saudi Arabia or China or Whoever suddenly invaded OUR country and indiscriminately locking up OUR citizens? We would respond violently. This isn't about EVIL--they're violently protesting their (somewhat understandable) view that we've wrongfully invaded their country.
"Maybe we’re so addled on Ritalin we wouldn’t know which end of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow a backbone. " Um, this is gibberish. "It doesn’t take a Darwin to figure out that in this world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and the most committed always win. No exceptions. " This is coming from a person who probably doesn't even believe in evolution.
Also, you're apparently saying that "Might Makes Right", which is utter crap (Hitler, Rome, etc. ) "Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are the people out to kill you. " Those people live in Fallujah and they probably wouldn't have messed with any of us if we hadn't charged into their country with our tanks and bombs and missles and started slaughtering their people. However, now that we have, you're probably right--they probably do hate us. Again, responding to 9-11 with our stupid cowboy knee-jerk violence is EXACTLY what the real terrorists wanted.
We've just spawned a whole country full of new America-hating terrorists. Osama is probably happier than a pig in shit right now. The only way any of this is ever going to get better is if Americans can--for one second--accept the differences of the rest of the world for what they are. The "tolerance" and "diversity" you take such cynical pleasure in trashing are the very things that will save our species.
The human race is infinitely diverse. We're never going to be a planet of just Jesus-loving Capitalist Democratic People. We're always going to be different than others--its just a matter of when we're going to learn that the way to stop terrorism is with kindness and charity--not killing. As the "biggest, richest, most powerful", we could do a lot more good in the world by spreading around our disproportionately large amount of wealth than we ever will by trying to force our way of life upon people who will never accept it... You're a moron, sir. Sincerely, Alex C. Blagg 
