(Around Shinjyuku Station on Snowy Sunday, Tokyo)"DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY?"
(Ami, où est mon pays?)
US President Mr. George W. Bush has still one year ahead in office. One year is a lot of days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milli-seconds.
As the largest mission the President has been entrusted to is finding the solution to end threats of terrorism and carrying it out, I'd like to contribute some to it, since Japan is an allied nation with the U.S., though the Japanese Constitution forbids involvement of Japan's Self-Defense Force in war except for homeland defense.
Mr. Michael Moore wrote some according to his conscience in his book "DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY?" in 2003:
...Bush's program of homeland security is providing us no security at all. If you want real security, I suggest you consider my ideas that will definitely make America a safe country:
1. Catch Osama bin Laden.
...My theory: He's back home in Saudi Arabia being protected by those who have been funding him and getting him the medical help he needs for his failing kidneys...
2. (omitted)
3. Propping up existing dictators does not endear us to the people living under the rule of those dictators.
...Our history of siding with the wrong guy is extensive...Saddam and the Saudi royals are only the start of the long list...
4. When attempting to prop up a Latin American dictator, try to do it without killing too many nuns or archbishops.
5. (omitted)
6. It might be good to find out why hundreds of millions of people on the three continents, stretching from Morocco on the Atlantic to the Philippines in the Pacific, are so pissed off about Israel.
7. Five percent of the world's population (that's us) use up 25 percent of the entire world's energy resources, and the well-off 16 percent, mostly the U.S., Europe, and Japan, use up 80 percent of the world's goods.
...To some, this seems to be a little greedy, and it's got to change...
8. We need to offer the world a drink of water.
...Right now, 1.3 billion people can't have a glass of clean water...
9. People should be able to buy the products they are making.
...Or how about the worker in El Salvador who makes 24 cents for each $140 NBA jersey she produces?...
10. No child must be a salve laborer.
11. When we kill civilians we shouldn't call it "collateral damage."
12. (omitted)
13. (omitted)
14. We must immediately disavow Bush's preemptive war policy.
...We need to slam shut this insane Pandora's box Bush and Cheney have opened...
15. (omitted)
16. Stop terrorizing our own citizens with the Patriot Act.
17. (omitted)
18. And finally...let's set a good example.
...When you treat people well, 99.9 percent of time they respond in kind.
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I am writing these, since it will be a significant and grave problem in future if a US President at last cannot arrest criminals and bring them to justice who killed about 3,000 innocent civilians at the center of New York and DOD in daylight, while the culprits have been clearly identified as they already confessed their guilty deeds.
In future, the US military success in Iraq would probably not be highly regarded, but its failure in taking Mr. Osama bin Laden and his fellows in charge and bringing them to a real court of justice would be gravely criticized.
It is because ultimately stability, peace, and prosperity in the region from Israel to the Persian Gulf can be assured through international cooperation and collaboration including United Nations operations, but the act of terror on the U.S. should be firsthand dealt with and solved sufficiently by the US Government presenting a good example of judiciary conducts to the world.
Everybody know the fact and the details of the 9/11 Terror. Everybody knows who did it. Everybody has his own idea about where the guilty party is hiding. Everybody knows that the US Government can spend tens of billions of dollars for operations of apprehension and capture of them. Everybody knows that US Government can mobilize tens of thousands of troops for operations of apprehension and capture of them. Everybody knows that President Mr. George W. Bush was already given seven years and is still given one more year to carry out this single task and related missions.
Yet, if the Bush Administration cannot apprehend the terrorists who conducted the 9/11 Terror in September 2001, history will really suffer from reasoning why.
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However, ironically, it is also a fact that the Islamic Persian Gulf States have become extremely rich, to the extent to bolstering the Wall Street in New York, during the reign of President Mr. Bush.
However, ironically, it is also a fact that the Israel and Saudi Arabia are now exposed to far less menaces and threats from Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan (with AlQaeda).
However, ironically, it is also a fact that the global oil market has now the minimum assurance of stability and security of provision of crude oil due to the tangible US presence in the Middle East.
Nonetheless, justice should be done on behalf of 4,000 people killed on September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington DC as well as in Bali, Madrid, London, and other places from North Africa to India in the following years.
President Mr. George W. Bush has still 11 months. I hope he will do his best in this regard until the last minute of his time in the White House, like a baseball pitcher on the mound in the 1-0 game with two down but bases fully loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning, taking two strikes against the last batter, say, Babe Ruth in the final game of the World Series.
(Have you seen the movies "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Sicko?"
To tell the truth, I haven't yet.
Nonetheless, I hope the movie director Mr. Moore will produce a new one titled, say, "US Religious Revolution."
You may be able to take part in it, though there are many Mafia-girl-like actresses in the United States.
Rather, you might like to play a certain role in a possible movie a Japanese Michael Moore, if any, might produce under the title "ALWAYS - Drug Disaster in San-Choume [the Third District]" or "ALWAYS - Imported Foods Disaster in San-Choume," since the movie "ALWAYS - The Sunset in San-Choume" has been a big hit in Japan.
Have a nice night tonight, too!
[Passez une bonne nuit ce soir!])
"...Why couldn't we drive the demon out?"
(...Warum konnten wir den bosen Geist nicht austreiben?)