This Just In: You Can't Understand a Language You Don't Speak

There is a lot of non-understanding going on lately: here in the USA, in the U.N., in the Middle East…pretty much everywhere you look, people are screaming, yelling, “talking”, discussing and deliberating. As I sat down to try to write this blog, I had some ideas of what I wanted to write/talk about, but not sure which would prevail. I guess to a certain extent, I still don’t know which direction I am going to go, but I guess we’ll see where each sentence takes me.
Now, as I mentioned, you can’t understand a language you don’t speak. Try it sometime. Turn your television to a Spanish channel, and see how much you understand. Difficult, right? Well, let’s look at this in a different light. You see, there is a sentiment that is creeping up in a lot of places, and that sentiment is one that would have us sit down and talk over tea and bread with say, um, Iran. You know…that little country over across the ocean that has a president that doesn’t think there was a Holocaust and who takes advice about the Holocaust from former KKK leaders and French professors? You know…with that president who publicly has stated he wants to see Israel, “wiped off the face of the map.” Gee, where have we heard that before, regarding the extinction of Jews? I’m trying to remember, can anyone help me out? Oh that’s right, a guy named Hitler, who every child, person and adult knows of if they’ve ever heard of that one war about 60 years ago…you know…World War II? Yeah, that’s the president of Iran. So, if you ask me do I think we should sit down and have “talks” with him, no. He is obviously not speaking the same language, so he won’t understand our “talk”. Now don’t be jumping up and down and screaming and telling me I’m one of the GOP-people who are trigger happy and willing to go to war if someone looks at us wrong. I’m not saying let’s jump into a war with Iran, not one bit. But, unlike the rest of the world who hates the United States, I see the overall objective of the United States, and realize it is actually for the betterment of our world, not to oppress foreign governments and pry into the average daily American’s life, (no, they really don’t care about your phone call to your spouse to pick up milk on the way home from work.) I’m going to try here to get you to see, in as simple terms as possible, the situation so you can understand. There is an organization whose leader has recently come out and more or less, bashed the Bush Administration for its policies and handling of the situation is Iraq, (No, I’m not talking about Howard Dean, although it fits). This is about Kofi Annan, the “leader” (and I use that term lightly, because the word leader implies actual decent leading), of the United Nations. The fact that he is and has been on the Anti-Bush bandwagon for years is not where I’m going. If I wanted to write about that, I’d just go talk to Brian Williams or Keith Olberman (if you don’t know who Olberman is, it’s not really a surprise, he doesn’t get a significant amount of viewers on MSNBC). You see, Mr. Annan is the head of an organization that ultimately, is good in theory. “United Nations”…it even has a nice ring to it. Country’s coming together for the good of mankind, which ultimately and principally, is a good thing. Enter politics. With an outgoing speech Annan eluded to the world taking up for each other. That is to say, countries helping other countries and people helping other people in time of crisis and need. I think that’s the exact definition of the United States over the last 50 years. However, Annan (along with a certain now-majority party) would have you believe the US in the last few years has not done that. It was interesting to read something Annan said in his speech on the 11th.
“Although increasingly independent, our world continues to be divided – not only by economic differences, but also by religion and culture. That is not in itself a problem. Throughout history human life has been enriched by diversity, and different communities have learnt from each other. But if our different communities are to live together in peace we must stress also what unites us: our common humanity, and our shared belief that human dignity and rights should be protected.” Annan goes on in his speech about basic lessons and principles that he hopes to see acted out in the future and that need to happen. Great. We need to be a good world. Glad he recognizes that. Re-enter Iran and their “leader” Mahmoud Ahmandinejad. Enter players such as Osama Bin-laden, Sudaam Hussein, and every terrorist under his rule. You see, it’s all great and nice that we should stress to these people that what unites us is our “common humanity” and our “shared belief that human dignity and rights should be protected”. What would be even greater is if they spoke the same language (literally, and metaphorically). But they don’t. We can’t sit down and talk with them, because no matter how much we try to get them to understand, their radical, fascist ideals and beliefs won’t allow them to. They don’t believe in human dignity or rights being protected. They brainwash their children from the time they are born to learn to respond when reporters ask them who the Jews and Americans are, with “They are pigs”, and “they are infidels”. You see, they want one thing: to see the USA and Israel destroyed, for good. They won’t “talk” with us about it and they won’t deliberate or try to go about it diplomatically. Here is what they will do: bomb our buildings, fly our planes into skyscrapers, shoot our citizens, and God forbid, sneak a chemical or biological bomb into our country…and detonate it. That is what they will do. And the fact that Ahmandinejad wears a tie and tells people he has best intentions at heart is somehow, I don’t know…not too reassuring to me. Let me move on.
The United States is good. There are organizations, far left-outlets and various outspoken people who get a voice now and then that will try with everything in their heart to get you to believe that it is not, and that the United States’ policies are the reasons for the terrorism, mainly in Iraq. Forget those guys walking up to US troops with bombs strapped to their chests and pressing the button. Forget those guys that have the guns and rocket launchers pointed at our troops and pulling the triggers. No, why blame them? I mean, we are just trying to save the people they are putting in danger. However, I truly believe that most people, democrat and republican, believe that the United States stands for what is good: that they do the right thing. The last couple years has seen that view diminish a bit, because you have the people that don’t believe America is good getting the voice, because they have aligned themselves with a Secular Progressive agenda that uses outlets like the media, and that is literally dangerous to America. It is an agenda that is not speaking the same language. You see, when you try to talk to people who inherently believe the USA is not doing enough for the world, who believe the USA is causing terrorism, who believe the USA is Satan…communication can not happen. Therefore, the deeds the USA does for the world get overlooked. The fact that the USA gives out more money to other countries than any other 20 countries combined gets overlooked. The fact that the USA took out a dictator who had murdered thousands and thousands of people and would have done it again gets overlooked. The fact that the USA has liberated literally millions of people during its tenure as world-power gets overlooked. What gets reported and spoken of are the few that would detract from the overall decent, good image that the United States has. A few troops that would torture prisoners, a few senators that would do wrong with their power in congress to harm children, and so on and so forth. The media will show you the horrific images coming out of Iraq, but not the schools being built left and right and the millions of Iraqi’s that show support and love for America. No. Instead, those that don’t speak the language of good, which is typically synonymous with the USA, can’t understand the overall picture. They have bought into a sick and twisted agenda which seeks to change America, and not for the good. They want to legalize people who broke the law to get here, they want to protect and stand up for people who would hurt children and harm YOU. They want to stand up for people who would detonate a bomb that would kill thousands, maybe millions of people in America…and THAT is a language that I can’t understand. No, in fact, it is a language I WONT understand. - AJW