America: From the Summit to the Abyss

It is time for America to let the rest of the world live its life in the way it wants, and not in the way that America wants. The demand for peace and security is on the rise; their value is even higher than that of oil and gold — and the catastrophe of war and its tragedies for humanity grow with the dawning of each new day. Now is the right time for the countries of this world to unite in the face of natural disasters, sickness, poverty and unemployment. And for worry and fear to recede, weapons must be silenced and soldiers discharged. Only when this happens will terrorism and all its instruments disappear. Al-Qaida will stop when the world begins, honestly and faithfully, to build a strong framework for individual freedom, dignity and the right to a safe life.

Indicators of American “greatness” are daily in retreat, and it’s comic how the country continues to play the role of the lone policeman, all the while traveling down the road to ruin, with domestic tempests blowing through the United States, disrupting the country's balance. Millions of American citizens are suffering from insomnia, with the national debt reaching 14 trillion dollars at the same time that the American president is spending $190 million a day on bringing to power in Afghanistan corrupt warlords from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. America must leave Afghanistan as well as Iraq, and allow these countries the freedom to decide what side they want to sleep on, as the writer and journalist Thomas Friedman suggested in one of his editorials in The New York Times.

America’s rosy days have ended. Here now is a country heading down a dangerous slope — feelings of tyranny and dominance spread over the minds of people who are daily seized with the conviction that America is driving down a highway in a car that no longer carries a spare tire. To preserve the unity of the nation, America must directly and immediately lower spending and review the methods of foreign policy management that have brought the country to ruin. Financial resources have become limited and America stands on the brink of a dangerous abyss. This is the essential situation that observers and analysts try to focus on.

Arrogance in power and empty pride are no longer sufficient to conceal the internal weakness of the country, a weakness which necessitates a restructuring in order to guarantee to the American citizen the basic requirements of the life to which he's become accustomed. This would require people to pay higher taxes and prepare to abandon more services for the sake of stabilizing the economy and making the necessary reductions in the large deficit that afflicts the budget.

How unhappy will we, the world’s poor — persecuted by the American machine of oppression — be to see the American citizen beg for a job and a loaf of bread at the doors of his government, and how much would we like to be at his side during this crisis — but where? For the eyes desire what the hands can’t reach. This is the result of policies of war, killing, destruction, occupation and the violation of states, policies which successive American administrations have pursued. The American people, who boast of their freedom and democracy, urgently need to wake up from this long narcissistic slumber, because America’s seven lean years seem to be imminent. And when they finally come there may not be enough money to address the effects of hardship and disaster, which at any moment could impact all the states on the continent.

Thus the hour of truth, which all Americans must confront, has drawn near; and the best means of making this confrontation is to erase American tyranny and oppression from this world. The American people have had enough of disaster and hatred, which they have cultivated across the globe, and they have had enough of the long series of lies and falsehood about democracy, freedom and human rights. All the papers have been revealed and the fabric is now too fragile for the mourner to patch it.

We acknowledge that the United States sits at the pinnacle of many fields, but the key is to preserve this achievement — and this seems impossible given the internal destruction wrought by unjust policies. Believe the one who said that the castle will only be defeated from within. The abyss cares not how long it waits; it knows there is no escape. The fool is the one who continues walking along the path that leads to disaster, and the wise man is the one who stops and returns to the road leading in the right direction. Will America do this? The answer lies not with the White House, but with the taxpayers.