Sidney Gluck shares a letter with us that he sent to President Barack Obama
December 1, 2010 Attn President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama, When you first ran for the nomination as the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2008, I wrote you a letter to call your attention to the fact that 21st century international relations should be handled through diplomacy rather than the military. While you did not acknowledge the letter, you did publicly express that sentiment during your bid for the nomination. Since then, we have had correspondence in what you might call a pocket kitchen cabinet, probably numbering in the low thousands, to which I have responded consistently. The present development of foreign policy under the aegis of the Pentagon is hardly the promise that you made in your bid for support. There is great danger in current developments of a military alliance and maneuvers in the waters around China without considering the unresolved diplomatic problems among the Asian countries (in particular, the failure to follow through with agreed borders between North and South Korea for over fifty years). Nor is there mention of the fact that South Korea has engaged military development and joint action with the USA. Little is being said or done to extinguish fires that are beginning to kindle. It is a letdown and a danger to world relations. The cover-up is a constant distortion of China’s economic and political relations, which are essentially peaceful and based on fair trade and mutual development of underdeveloped countries. Much is made of Chinese capital (private and social) being invested in developing (in Africa in particular) and developed countries which result in positive gains for all. True, there is economic competition. That is not new. But, the differences must be settled on the economic level in a diplomatic manner rather than building up the image of the Chinese enemy responsible for the economic problems that we face because of the distortions in our own economy (which have negatively affected fourteen million people without any sight of rehabilitation). The only exception – hurrah! – is the fact that corporations in the third quarter of this very 2010 have made more profit than any quarter in the last generation. There is no doubt that support of military production is reflected in these profits. Mr. President, you owe it to us to stop joining in the parade of making China the culprit for our own economic dislocations. I recommend that you follow what Roosevelt did: set up a WPA (Works Progress Administration) to bail out working people since the federal government had paid attention to bailing out finance capital while failing to stimulate loans to industries willing to expand and develop our own economy with high tech and generation of jobs. This is your great challenge to fulfill your promises and the heartfelt desire of the tremendous movement which elected a black president for the first time in the hope that it would lead to a change in our economic and social direction. It brought forth a tremendous reaction from the wealthy far right who are succeeding in taking pieces of the federal government, but you are not publicly leading the people through giving them the facts of what is happening. You are allowing a smokescreen to be developed in the image of a foreign competitor and turning it into the military solution of legitimate differences in points-of-view. Why don’t you read the articles in the New York Times that appeared in their news of the week on the legitimacy of economic differences between China and the USA (with a good part of the world agreeing with those sentiments)? You are at the cusp of all these developments, which demand a clear and honest expression of the differences to be settled peacefully and a warning about developing an aura of misrepresentations and a development of military alliances. Turn us away from economic and military warfare. Get back to the promise of peaceful growth and world cooperation. Sincerely, Sidney J. Gluck P.S. Enclosed is considerable material on China’s involvement in human problems, whether they are internal or external, and dealings with its East Asian neighbors’ problems for mutual improvement, which is published by a private organization in China called “Moving Mountains”. They deal with human problems of social importance in a non-profit mode. These are services that we should be emulating instead of creating rumors about negatives as being the dominant features of China’s economic and governmental form. In the name of peace, please reflect a balance in our relationship and settle matters diplomatically. -----Original Message----- = From: CHINA-WIRE To: sjgluck@aol.com Sent: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 1:25 am Subject: [CHINA-WIRE] We're back with more! We now have Featured Articles & WaterWATCH!  If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online. |