MOST WANTED - A MORAL REVIVAL!

What some people in the USA want is to encourage the people in Iran to risk their lives to set up a democracy in that country similar to what is the experience here.

I question I want to ask is why?

The USA has been a democracy for three hundred years but what has that meant? It has meant with the most resources available to any country we are unable to educate our children, we have an economy in crisis with a gigantic national debt, we use the most drugs and have the highest rates of crime and divorce; and our health care system is an absolute joke.

The city of New Orleans has not yet recovered from the hurricane that struck that city several years ago.

Why do we feel that we have the right to be promoting a way of life that has not worked for us - we are no nearer to achieving a functioning democracy than we were three hundred years ago.

What gives us the right to tell members of another sovereign nation how to solve their problems when we are completely, palpably incapable of solving our own?

It is the Dick Cheney attitude, for eight years he had the power and made a complete mess of things, of everything but now suddenly he would have us believe he knows all the answers?

Give me a break and give the people of Iran a break and the right to work out their own destinies.

The people of America have no right to be telling anyone how to govern because the country is in a complete mess.

We should focus on fixing our own problems and when we got it right then we export it, not the other way round.
Look at the mess we made in Iraq, we can teach the world to dance to the democratic tune after we learn that secret ourselves, not before.

And to learn anything, to change anything, we have to be able to say, those wonderful, enervating, revitalizing, reforming, emancipating words, "WE WERE WRONG."

As long as Americans look at the mess we are in and continue to believe we are the smartest, the richest people on Planet Earth nothing will change.

Admitting your mistakes is the necessary prerequisite to correcting them, the attitude "America is always right, and the rest of the world is always wrong" is the road we are on, to perdition.

I say again, I reiterate the refrain I have been harping on for the past fifteen years, the change that is required for the American people or the Iranian people is to change the man or woman in your mirror so that that individual becomes capable of telling the truth and doing the right thing, its the most simple and simultaneously, the most difficult prescription an individual or nation could attempt to apply but it is the only one that is certain to work.

Each choice we make will support, not destroy, function - if subjected to the acid test of its morality, of whether it is right or wrong.

William E. Virtue
3222 Airways Blvd # 312
Memphis, TN 38116

ph: 954-850-1498