If the U.S. government vetoes the Palestinians' bid for recognition by the U.N., it might in effect be painting targets on the backs of American citizens. Why? Because many people in the Muslim world strongly disagree that the U.S. has the “right” to deny Palestinians equal rights and representative government. Our own Declaration of Independence says that if people are denied equal rights and representative government, they have the right to resist their oppressors. So our government takes a terrible risk when it denies the rights we cherish to other people.
What would American men do, if some foreign oppressor interfered with the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of millions of American children? Other men love their children too, and will never agree that hubristic, hypocritical Americans have any business forcing them to be serfs.
Mike Burch,
Nashville, Tennessee
