| No PH, don't misrepresent what I said, it isn't wrong to talk to the citizens of another country, this is good, it improves our understanding of different peoples, we can learn about them and teach them of us. What I said is that it is wrong for the head of state of a country to address the citizens of a foreign country directly, particularly as was seen in this instance -through an open letter addressed to the population in general and urging their concern over domestic matters which have absolutely nothing to do with Iran. What do you imagine the president of Iran understands about due process or civil rights in the US?
I have no doubt if Bush published a letter in the paper of record in Teheran urging abolition of the Sharia, there would be no end to the denunciations from the government there. What do you imagine they'd denounce? They would say the Sharia is something Bush knows nothing of and probably couldn't understand since he's an infidel. I'm sure we'd be told local law administration in Iraq is no concern for a united statian president. No doubt the letter would be held up as an example of united statian interference, as it clearly would be. How come the inverse wouldn't apply?
Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
Raúl M. Núñez Sheriff |