Open Letter to President of the United States of America
(Shahzad Shameem, Abbottabad)
Open Letter to President of the
United States of America
by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia
Dear Mr. President,
I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian.
But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will
affect me and my country as well.
I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of
America needs a lot of changes.
That is because America and Americans have become the most hated people in the
world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and
liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation.
It is the custom on New Year's day for people to make resolutions. You must
have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you
also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.
1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order
to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today's wars are not about
professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing
people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries
will be devastated.
War is primitive, the cavemen's way of dealing with a problem. Stop your
arms build up and your planning for future wars.
2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your
weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you.
3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against
you. In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them
of medicine and food. Others were born deformed. What have you achieved with
this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking
people.
4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical
weapons to kill more people more efficiently.
5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to
the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian.
6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work
for the United States but it does not always work for other countries.
Don't kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize
countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you
overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.
7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds,
derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by
the billions. Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made
profits from abusing the system.
8 ) Sign the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements.
9) Show respect for the United Nations.
I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and
undertake.
But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2009th year of the
Christian Era.
If you can do only a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the
world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired
nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire
coils that surround them.
May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
(Former Prime Minister of Malaysia)
Note: Do our Leaders need such REMINDER as well?