Home > Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other)
Results so far:
| Yes | 56% | 272 votes | Total: 484 votes | |
| No | 44% | 212 votes |
Yes
Created on: September 23, 2007 Last Updated: October 14, 2010
What could it change in retrospect to a free nation unprovoked by a dictator that suppresses his own people to the will of their government. It could very well be the healing part America needs to show the resilience and determination that coercion an initiatory force will not be tolerated here in America. A message that tells all suppressive governments every where that we are here to stay.
Everyone should believe it may do more good to show the president of Iran, how the American people act in times of crisis. The mark of a great nation is not what we dwell upon but how we bounce back from tragedy. I do not think this action shows weakness of our country. I think he should have the right to go and pay his respects to the many people he had a hand in killing. Please let him respect our loss for his sins against humanity fore his day of reckoning is very near. When I see and hear president Ahmadinejad speaking to the United nations. I see fear and unrest in his hand gestures. A man that is destructive and suppressive of his own people he represents through his dictator power.
I think President Ahmadinejad is confused to what America means to the American people. I think it is up to us to be good ambassadors for our country even though he has hatred in his heart. Even in the face of adversity. We as a united people should be able to help change his view of our nation through positive gestures of fearlessness towards him or his country. If it doesn't! Who would it change the most? Would it change our view of him or would it change his nations view of us? If we don't try to be civil towards extremest like Ahmaadinejad. We may have burned a bridge between our two nations that will never heal.
I will be the first to admit that I really do not understand all this hatred he has for the United States. Hatred only brings bloodshed. What could it change to show a man that has known very little about peace and prosperity? What could it change to show a man nuclear weapons are a negative way to get other nations attention? What could it change to show how wrong he is about the Jews of the world? Every nationality of people share this Continent with us. Even people from Iran live, and work amongst us every day.
I think he is coming here for guidance to take a look at the beast. The beast he will surely set free if he lets his nation continue its' present track . President Ahmadinejad could say a lot of conflictual things while here but Americans are good at tuning out what they do not want to hear. So let him speak his piece. He may not have the time in the near future to change his destructive path towards humanity.
You can protest. I will understand. President Ahmadinejad will not. What will be understood is our hostility against his country. I would think he could say his narrow minded pieces to the Columbia students would fall on deaf ears. I would also think they are smart enough to weed through all the illusions this man is placing in front of them in a destructive manner.
I think the reason why the American people are so scared of this man is because they are scared to hear what he has to say. He could cause conflict with his words and he could talk about his views on the Jewish nation. What would it change? All it would do is show his idiocy toward things that are bigger in the over all picture of things. Even we as a nation talk about the different cultures that live among us. The hypocrisy of our government leaders only add fuel to the already increasing fire between our two nations.
What would it change? I would think it would show the urgency of humanity that the nuclear clock is only two minutes away from annihilation of all humanity. One can only hope that our actions not our words are taken to heart. To think we could ever change Iran's mind or their views of us would most definitely have to come from the president of Iran . He can not afford to straddle the fence on this issue. Let him tell his side. We all know he doesn't speak for all Iranians. Ahamadineajad uses his power of authority as an end in itself. To use feelings and the wisdom of his countries whims, wishes, and intuitions to keep control over others in his country. That concept will not be taken well here in America. America should be a protection only country for it's people and respect all rights of all people. No person or group of persons or government should initiate force or threat of force towards any country or person.
Learn more about this author, Rex Coker.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.
No
Created on: September 24, 2007
No, the Iranian President should not be allowed to visit the former location of the World Trade Center complex, now one of our nation's most hallowed sites. For Ahmadinejad to use the tragedy of 9/11 for cynical political posturing would be both profane and blasphemous.
To him, it is a photo opportunity that serves at least two purposes. First, he wants to seem sympathetic to the American people and the Western world. He wants us to believe that he is reasonable and concerned for the death of innocent people. He wishes to portray himself and his regime as thoughtful and compassionate.
But his second, and real, purpose would not be to show respect for the sanctity of human life and commemorate a tragedy of wanton slaughter of human beings by a cadre of radical Islamics sponsored by Al Qaida, but, as he has said, to honor those slain by terrorists. What many do not realize here in America is that Ahmadinejad has stated repeatedly that the Bush administration are the terrorists, not the jihadists.
He has accused President Bush and the Israeli government of planning and orchestrating the destruction of the twin towers and the deaths of American citizens. He lays the term "terrorist" at the feet of George Bush and denies the complicity of Al Qaida or any involvement of the actual Arab terrorists who carried out the attack.
But who he seeks to honor are the terrorists themselves in their struggle against American hegemony. His radical Islamic stance denies involvement while at the same time celebrating the "martyrs' victory" over the "Crusaders". It is a cynical and self-serving action which accomplishes the twin goals of simultaneously pandering to the Islamic and Western worlds.
It is almost like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a psychotic, who with one personality, denies involvement by the responsible group and assails the innocent, while at the same time acknowledging the martyrdom and "noble" sacrifice of the terrorists with an alter ego. In other words, he plays both sides at the same time. His ability to maintain two positions at once allows him to call for the destruction of Israel and the United States - the two "Satans" of his warped mind, and then appeal to the American people and claim to want peaceful and friendly relations.
Ahmadineja d is leading his country into a confrontation with the United States, by building up a military far exceeding his needs. He has developed missile technology and a nuclear potential while stating he will wipe Israel off the map. Iranian involvement in killing Americans has gone on since the Carter administration and continues to this day in supplying terrorist groups all over the Middle East. Right now, a roadside bomb made in Iran is exploding somewhere in Iraq maiming and killing American soldiers on patrol.
We must not let this man go unchallenged. We must not let him carry out his campaign of duplicity and propaganda on American soil - not at the heart of the atrocities he seeks to promote and embrace. Ground Zero is now a sacred and hallowed place, and not to be used as a propaganda weapon by our enemies.
Learn more about this author, Terry Booth.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.