A nation that has lost its values

I read Thanong Khanthong’s article today online. How I wish many more newspapers would print similar stories. I was born in England in 1941 and me, and my family, suffered the hardships of the World War II and its aftermath of rationing. During my youth, most of us believed that the forces of Democracy – the USA, UK etc – were God’s gift to the world. After all, hadn’t they saved us from the Nazis and the fascists? Weren’t the Russians bad people? Ditto the Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabs, Muslims, etc. Nowadays, the USA invades countries at will. Our sympathies were with the Jewish people, who had suffered more than anyone else. How we rejoiced when the Berlin Wall came down. And the collapse of the USSR – wonderful!

How things have changed! Now we have walls everywhere, built by the Israelis and Americans. And democracy and capitalism aren’t working too well, are they? I have long believed that the USA is totally out of control. It sails its warships everywhere, yet objects when others do the same. We can have nuclear power, but you cannot. The Israeli treatment of the Palestinians is horrendous. The Gaza ghetto is similar to that of the Jews in Warsaw. Most of the terror problems in the world are as a result of the Palestinian problem, which, I believe, is deliberately kept going by the USA in order to justify its military spending and presence in various countries.

Your article explains why this is happening very clearly, and I congratulate you on that. Will things change? I think not. We are heading for more war. A good war is a good tool for some governments.

George Ackinclose

Perth